and Sexual Masochism in "Batter my heart, three person'd God" In Donne's Holy Sonnet, "Batter my heart, three person'd God," themes of religious renewal
Donne's Holy Sonnet XIV - Batter my heart, three person'd God Batter my heart, three person'd God; for, you As yet but knocke, breathe, shine,
On the first read Batter My Heart appears to be about a complicated love triangle, but with multiple readings, a deeper meaning becomes more obvious, it’s
Batter my heart (Holy Sonnet 14) As I read “Batter my heart” I felt I completely understood what John Donne was fiercely passionate about. I had an experience
Biography of John Donne John Donne was an English poet and probably the greatest metaphysical poets of all time. He was born in 1572 to a Roman Catholic
between God and mankind. Many interpretations are positive - Psalm 139 of the Bible, for example, portrays the relationship between man and God as a personal
portrays the speaker as a noble human being because he is anxious to please God. In the book The Divine Poems, writer Helen Gardner supports this fact as