Batter My Heart, Three-person’d God by John Donne

The verse Batter My Heart, Three- sould god by John Donne is a prayer to matinee idol from the poet. Donne is a struggling sinner, and the rime is his desperate cry for help. He wants God to be in his life, no head how difficult and painful it is, and dispositions to be everything God wants him to be. The poem gives a sense of Donnes complex relationship with God. It is apparent that he is in the midst of a struggle with good and evil, and begins with a plea to God to enter his fancy by any means necessary and liberate him of the evil that has taken over.Donne uses bright and violent resourcefulness through off the poem as a way of showing his utter desperation. This imagery is apply in an exaggerated way to convey Donnes strong desire for God, as well as implying that there is something else that is hindering his ability to spare God in himself. In using the metaphor batter my warmheartedness in the first off line, Donne is implying that he wants God to use his origin homogeneous a battering ram to enter his heart. This gives a strong distinction that there is some unknown force be it sin, evil, or the get at preventing Donne himself from allowing God to enter.He refers to God as the three-personed God, alluding to the Bibles training of God as the stimulate, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Donnes complaint is that God is non being scrappy enough in how he is dealing with him the Father knocks, the Holy Spirit breathes, and the Son shines his light upon him, only when Donne wants him to use his power more aggressively to m stop over him, help him become new, and force the evils out of him. The progression to violent imagery shows Donnes desperation he no longer wants God knock, but is asking him to break the door downcast, not barely breathe but to blow, and not shine, but to burn.The use of head rhyme with the words break, breathe and blow help in drawing charge to their severity, and emphasizing the extent of Donnes desperation. He believes that in using these detrimental actions, God will free him from his weaknesses and make him new again. In the number quatrain, it becomes clear that the first four lines are meant to be taken metaphorically, quite than literally. Donne likens his heart to a city that has been overtaken, and he wants God to be aggressive in taking it back.This expands upon the indication of the unknown force Donnes heart is the city that has been taken captive, and God is the savior that he wants to break down the gate and take it back by force. It becomes obvious in this quatrain that the previously unknown force holding Donne back is his sense modestness and rationality. He shows that even his mind has failed him in his attempts to be close with God. Donnes reason is what should be fighting for him in his battle and defending him, but quite is captured, shows weakness, and even lies to him.He suggests that although he believes God is the rightful ruler of his heart, his rationality has been impaired such that he cannot defend Him and let Him in. The sestet begins with merely reinforcement of the notion that Donne wants God back in his life, no matter how difficult it may be. He begins by stating that even though his eldritch life is currently in a state of struggle, he thus far has a deep affection of God and wants to love and be love by Him. His state of desperation is the result of this struggle. Donne quickly returns to the shocking imagery that has been prevalent throughout, claiming he is betrothed to the enemy.This claim of engagement to the devil is a paradox he is not actually going to marry the devil, but at the time feels unwillingly more connected to Gods enemies and their ways than to God and Gods ways. He asks God to part him, to untie or break the engagement he has with the devil. At the end of the prayer, Donne uses two more paradoxes to explain how deep of a connection he wants to feel with God. He begs for God to imprison him to set him free and his feels as though Gods prison is the only way in which he can be truly free of his weaknesses, and pure of evils.He also begs to be ravished and filled with delight so that he may become pure, which carries some sexual imagery. As with the metaphor in the first quatrain, this is not a literal request he simply wants to be convinced of the power of God, so that he can have a close and loving relationship with Him. These contradictions show a deeply aflame affection towards God, and when taken figuratively are very effective in conveying his message of desperation. Although Batter My Heart, Three-persond God is filled with graphic and violent imagery, John Donne is not attempting to be crude or inappropriate.Donne is simply explaining his own tremulous relation with God, and uses the violent imagery as a means to show how desperate he has become in his direction to bring God back into his life. If he allows God to do some(prenominal) it takes, even if it means pain and the loss of his very freedom, he knows God can bring him into a close, loving relationship with Him and make him into the person he thinks God wants him to be. So he can pray, Batter my heart, break, blow, burn, imprison me, enthrall and ravish me, for he believes his God is a loving, pure, kind, and just three-persond God and he trusts Him with his very heart, soul, and life.