What do you know about "Holy sonnets : batter my heart, three person'd God" by john Donne?

Holy Sonnets:Batter my heart, three person'd God
John Donne

 

This is one of the most beautiful sonnets of Donne written in a petrarchan verse( ABBAABBA / CCDCCDC).

The poet here is and afflicted lover of God who is hurt because he is deviated from the holy path to sinful path.

He urges God to ravish his body and make chaste.

The poet prays to God in his threefold capacity as the father, the son and the holy ghost to batter his heart.

So God should overthrow the poet and bend his force to break and, blow and make him new and free from sins.


Themes

  • religion - the subject of the poem is religion.

  • love - speaker's love to the god more than spiritual way.

  • sex

  • violence - violence is a way in which the speaker imagines God manifesting his love.

  • warfare - warfare makes up the major extended metaphor.

  • repentance - poet repents and say that he had committed many wrong deeds in his life; unless God forgive him he wont be happy.

  • man faithlessness - the sonnet also goes deeper into the faithlessness of the human being and highlights their weakness against Stan the Gods enemy.

  • Christian concept of God - the trinity

  • Philosophy connected to religion.

  • Religion as a prestige

  • Agony of religious doubt

  • Significance of christian living


Techniques

  • simile

  • abrupt entrance

  • dramatic monologue

  • strong use of imagery

  • allusion

  • metaphysical ideas

  • alliteration

  • consonance

  • onomatopoeia

  • petrachean contractions

  • simple, colloquial language


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