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Poetry Essay:
“Batter my heart, three-personed God” and “Death Be Not Proud” by John Donne
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Poetry Essay:
“Batter my heart, three-personed God” and “Death Be Not Proud” by John Donne
Introduction
Batter My Heart, sonnet by John Donne, one of the 19 Holy Sonnets, or Divine Meditations, originally published in 1633 in the first edition of Songs and Sonnets. Written in direct address to God and employing violent and sexual imagery, it is one of Donne's most dramatic devotional lyrics.
The speaker starts by asking God (alongside Jesus and the Holy Ghost) Because together, they make up the "three-person’d God") and the speaker asks God to attack his core as if it were the gates of a fortress town.
Thesis
The main theme for “Death Be Not Proud” is the powerlessness of death
The main themes of the “Batter my heart..” poem are love, religion, and violence
Tone of the lyrical voices in the poems
Meaning? Compare? Contrast?
Supporting Information
Death, be not proud.
Explain the interpretation with this first line of the sonnet
Vivid images of death showing that it is not the end, but a pathway
Battle between God and Satan over the speaker’s soul
Impure thoughts
Is the soul too damaged?
Conclusion
“One short sleep past, we wake eternally / And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.”
Through our trials and tribulations, we are made anew.
Defeating the fear of death and anticipating a happy afterlife
Reference
Johnson, Greg, and Thomas R. Arp, editors. Perrine’s Literature: Liberty University Online
English 102 Custom 13th ed. Cengage, 2018.
