Batter My Heart- John Donne

CONTEXT
1. 'Unholy' Holy Sonnet, Donne begs God to overthrow him
2. Donne lived in an age of religious termoil
3. He was Catholic but later converted to Anglicanism
4. Prominent Metaphysical Poet, use their 'wit' to develop new imgainative conciets
FORM
1. Petrachan sonnet with rhyming couplet
2. Iambic pentametre with trochee to open
3. Ryhtmical stress of listed verbs
4. Change of imagery herelded by Volta in sestet
5. Caesura
Grammar
1. Imperative mood, commands God!
2. Declarative mood described difficulties
3. Syndetic listing of verbs
4. Foregrounding of imperatives 'Batter'
5. Interjections, discourse features 'but oh'
LEXIS
1. Vocative 'three person'd God'
2. Pronouns 'I' 'Me' 'You'
3. Lexical sets, distruction, war marriage
4. Paradoxial lexis 'chaste' 'ravish' 'imprison' 'free'
SOUND
1. Plosives 'batter' 'breake' 'blow'
2. Sibilance 'shine' and 'seeke'
3. Assonance 'ee' sounds

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