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Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God" by John Donne

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Good Morning, I need help analyzing a poem. The poem that I want to analyze is "Batter my heart, three-personed God" by John Donne.

This is the poem:
Batter my heart, three-person'd God ; for you
As yet but knock ; breathe, shine, and seek to mend ;
That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend
Your force, to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
I, like an usurp'd town, to another due,
Labour to admit you, but O, to no end.
Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend,
But is captived, and proves weak or untrue.
Yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain,
But am betroth'd unto your enemy ;
Divorce me, untie, or break that knot again,
Take me to you, imprison me, for I,
Except you enthrall me, never shall be free,
Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.

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Good morning and welcome to Brain Mass today! You logged in and asked for help with the following:

This is the poem:
Batter my heart, three-person'd God ; for you
As yet but knock ; breathe, shine, and seek to mend ;
That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend
Your force, to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
I, like an usurp'd town, to another due,
Labour to admit you, but O, to no end.
Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend,
But is captive, and proves weak or untrue.
Yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain,
But am betroth'd unto your enemy ;
Divorce me, untie, or break that knot again,
Take me to you, imprison me, for I,
Except you enthrall me, never shall be free,
Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.

As you know, per Brain Mass policy I will not be able to write this for you. But instead, we can discuss what this poem is about and then you should have no problems formulating your response to it.

Let us begin with discussing the poet John Donne who was a Christian writer. He believed in the Trinity which, in the Christian religion, is one God with three ...

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