Batter My Heart
Batter my Heart, three Personed God” by John Donne is a very interesting poem. The beginning of the poem shows that he feels unworthy of the kindness of God. He begins the poem by saying “Batter my heart, three-personed God; for you As yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend”. He feels that God thinks too highly of him. Secondly, he goes on to show that he needs God to break him down. He says Loading...“That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend Your force, to break, blow, burn, and make me new.” The purpose in him wanting God to break him down seems to be so that he can be made over. He desired to be made new.
There are many examples of simile and metaphors in this poem although the poem is only fourteen stanzas. The symbolisms used were the words breathe, burn, and shine. Ironically his choice of words caused a major contradiction. Who would want to be burned? According to Pearson Education, perhaps being burnt was a metaphor. Perhaps, he used that term in relation to Ezekiel 24:11 “Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed.”
Donne didn’t particularly display a specific setting however one could assume based off of his knowledge of the Trinitarian God-head (which is the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) that he indeed knew God and may have even been a Christian. The true setting may be implied differently based upon the reader. As I read this poem, I thought it was a prayer more so than a poem. It seemed to me that he was addressing God but also searching for a response from God.
In this sonnet, the quatrain or four lines went together. Upon reading it, one could assume that each thought is one in itself, however based on the syntactical structure of the poem in the first stanza; the sentence was not concluded until the last line of the poem. According to Pearson this poem is an attempt at opening the door to a
There are many examples of simile and metaphors in this poem although the poem is only fourteen stanzas. The symbolisms used were the words breathe, burn, and shine. Ironically his choice of words caused a major contradiction. Who would want to be burned? According to Pearson Education, perhaps being burnt was a metaphor. Perhaps, he used that term in relation to Ezekiel 24:11 “Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed.”
Donne didn’t particularly display a specific setting however one could assume based off of his knowledge of the Trinitarian God-head (which is the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) that he indeed knew God and may have even been a Christian. The true setting may be implied differently based upon the reader. As I read this poem, I thought it was a prayer more so than a poem. It seemed to me that he was addressing God but also searching for a response from God.
In this sonnet, the quatrain or four lines went together. Upon reading it, one could assume that each thought is one in itself, however based on the syntactical structure of the poem in the first stanza; the sentence was not concluded until the last line of the poem. According to Pearson this poem is an attempt at opening the door to a