Thesis Homework 3rd Period - due 10/22

Please post your thesis statements for Holy Sonnet 14 in the comments section below.

Thesis Homework 2nd Period - due 10/22

Please post your thesis statements for Holy Sonnet 14 in the comments section below.

Thesis Homework 1st period - due 10/22

Please post your thesis statement from Holy Sonnet 14 in the comment section.

Homework 10-15 : answer the questions after Holy Sonnet 14

Please Read the following sonnet and COMPLETELY ANSWER all questions. Turn your assignment in at the beginning of class on 10-16-13.

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.

1) What kind of God is suggested by the words "batter", "break", knock, overthrow? What does "three-personed God" mean?
2) With which God might the verbs "knock" and "break" be associated? The verbs "breathe" and "blow"? The verbs "shine" and "burn"?
3) What is the effect of the altered word order at the end of lines 7 and 8? how should they be written?
4)Explain the words "enthrall"(13) and "ravish"(14) to resolve the paradox in the last two lines? To what extent is this a paradox? Support your answer.

This is your entrance ticket to class 10/17/13!

 



Holy Sonnet X - Period 3 Comments

Please post your Statement of the situation and the abstract idea in the comments below. Try to compose it as one big, fluid, complex statement.

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Holy Sonnet X - 2nd Period Comments

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HOLY SONNET X by John Donne - 1st period

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"The Flea" by John Donne - 3rd Period

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