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Batter My Heart- John Donne
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Mind Map on Batter My Heart- John Donne, created by jn150556 on 04/03/2015.
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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
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
Grammar
Imperative mood, commands God!
Declarative mood described difficulties
Syndetic listing of verbs
Foregrounding of imperatives 'Batter'
Interjections, discourse features 'but oh'
LEXIS
Vocative 'three person'd God'
Pronouns 'I' 'Me' 'You'
Lexical sets, distruction, war marriage
Paradoxial lexis 'chaste' 'ravish' 'imprison' 'free'
SOUND
Plosives 'batter' 'breake' 'blow'
Sibilance 'shine' and 'seeke'
Assonance 'ee' sounds
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