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