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    Poetry Analysis: "Batter My Heart‚ Three-Personed God‚ For You" John Donne’s "Batter My Heart‚ Three-Personed God‚ For You" is an Italian sonnet written in iambic pentameter. The poem is about a man who is desperately pleading with his God to change him. He feels imprisoned by his own sinful nature and describes himself as betrothed to the "Enemy" of God‚ namely Satan. The speaker has a truly passionate longing to be absolutely faithful to his God‚ but at the same time is rendered hopeless by the

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    lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? Do they call virtue there‚ ungratefulness?” Sir Philip Sidney‚ “Sonnet 31” 2. Conceit- an elaborate‚ fanciful metaphor. “Our two souls therefore‚ which are one‚ though I must go‚ endure not yet a breach‚ but an expansion‚ like gold to aery thinness beat.” John Donne‚ “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning” 3. Hyperbole- an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally.

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    Comparison of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73 and Sonnet 116 William Shakespeare‚ in his Sonnet 73 and Sonnet 116‚ sets forth his vision of the unchanging‚ persistent and immovable nature of true love. According to Shakespeare‚ love is truly "till death do us part‚" and possibly beyond. Physical infirmity‚ the ravages of age‚ or even one’s partner’s inconstancy have no effect upon the affections of one who sincerely loves. His notion of love is not a romantic one in which an idealized vision

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    introduced to Dante’s best friend Guido Cavalcanti in The Vita Nuova in the XXIV Chapter dedicated to Guido Cavalcanti. Dante believes here that Guido’s heart “[is] still marvelled at the beauty of this gentile Primavera [(Beatrice])” (Vita Nuova 759). The Sonnet for Guido reveals their “brotherly” love towards each other and the support they confined within each other’s lives. The “gaze” is quite proven by Dante’s summary of his own work following the poem‚ where he explains in warm-heartedness the “[happiness]

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    The Sonnet Form and its Meaning: Shakespeare Sonnet 65 The sonnet‚ being one of the most traditional and recognized forms of poetry‚ has been used and altered in many time periods by writers to convey different messages to the audience. The strict constraints of the form have often been used to parallel the subject in the poem. Many times‚ the first three quatrains introduce the subject and build on one another‚ showing progression in the poem. The final couplet brings closure to the poem by

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    is the doctrine of the Holy Spirit (Bere and Horton 169). The Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity. He enters into a person’s heart when they except Jesus as their Lord and Savior. It is impossible to live a triumphant Christian life without being aware and knowing the works of the Holy Spirit The Holy Spirit is a person‚ just like God and Jesus. Some proof of this is that He was given a proper name. In John 14:26‚ Jesus called Him “the Comforter” (KJV)‚ and in John 14:17‚ Jesus calls Him

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    Sonnet 138 Analysis In “When my love swears that she is made of truth‚” William Shakespeare uses personification‚ pun‚ and tone to unmask the fear that the speaker feels towards his age. The author personifies the speaker’s mentality as a woman to identify his uneasiness towards old age. The speaker’s mentality is referred to as woman because women are always self conscious of their age: “And wherefore say not I that I am old?” (line 10). The speaker can’t admit that he is old. That is why his

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    sacred sites of different religions in the city‚ including the Western Wall of the ancient Jewish Temple and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher of the Christians. After the complete destruction of the Jewish Temple in 70 CE by the Roman forces‚ Jerusalem was stripped of its spiritual axis and left desolated with the Jews banned from the city. Consequently‚ when the Church of the Holy Sepulcher was built on the Western Hill‚ the city of Jerusalem was invigorated with a new religious passion‚ but the rivalry

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    1. When Annie Dillard says “I’ll do it in the evenings‚ after skiing‚ or on the way home from the bank…” she is referring to writing‚ and how writing is something that you have to take on completely and make it your whole life. 2. The most climactic event of Dillard’s narrative is when the female moth goes into the flame of the candle and her body is shriveling and crumbling away. She connects it with what she sees in the bathroom because the hollow body of the female moth didn’t crumble and became

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    Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day main theme Shakespeare asks‚ Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? in his famous love poem. In Sonnet 18 he praises his lover’s beauty in such an astonishing way that makes you want to be the person he is in love with. On the other hand he is aware of the fact that beauty is not everlasting and he is bewildered by the idea. So he tries to find a way to make her beauty eternal and resolves in dedicating this poem to her. Therefore the main theme in the

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