Batter my heart, three-personed God

The poet compares himself to an usurped town in "Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God" to illustrate his spiritual conflict and desire for God's intervention. He feels his heart is overtaken by sin,...

The paradoxes in lines 13 and 14 of John Donne's "Batter my Heart" are the contradictory ideas that true freedom comes from being enslaved by God and that spiritual chastity results from being...

Your question identifies how the force of this poem is based around the series of incredibly violent images that Donne uses to express his desire for God to "batter his heart" and achieve perfect...

John Donne's sonnet "Batter My Heart" uses a violent metaphor to express the poet's internal struggle for spiritual redemption and reconciliation with God. The sonnet reflects Donne's plea for divine...

I would argue that it is not a fair statement and that the poem is far more concerned with the effects of reason on human beings than it is with the complex emotions implied by the term...

I would argue that this assertion is only partly true. Yes, Donne feels that his soul has been captured by the Satanic desires of the selfish heart. But that doesn't mean that he's sold his soul to...

John Donne uses paradox and ambiguity in his poem Batter my heart to describe the relationship between God and the believer. He begins by using marriage as a metaphor for this relationship. He then...

John Donne's poem "Batter My Heart, Three-Person'd God" is a Holy Sonnet that explores the speaker's plea for spiritual renewal through God's forceful intervention. Donne employs conceits and...