Batter my heart, three-person’d god - John Donne :: English Literature

Batter my heart, three-persond god - John Donne1. The paradox in the starting quatrain is that god is supposed to be agood person but in this poem he isnt. The speaker wants god todestroy him and remake him so he could pay off chance at salvation. Thethree persond god represents the ways in which god will universeifest hispower in the task of giving the speaker salvation. The speaker iscompare to an usurped town in may ways. The speaker is compared to aland were two policy-making parties are having a conflict. In the parallellines 2 and 4 knock and break represent god and how he uses directforce. Breath and blow represent the holy feeling and how it is something you can make. A spirit is not something you can feel. Burn andshine is Jesus and how he enlightened the people. The pun is how theheart represents the speakers believes. No matter what god does hecant change it. So he tells god to beat him into salvation.2. The speaker compares himself to and usurped town where there isc onflict. God is the minor political party or train of thought and theusurper is the devil who is the dominating party. Reason plays a bigpart because as in partisan faction, citizens have the choice to chosetheir beliefs. The speaker is saying his reason is leaning him towardsthe devil. This reason however is weak because god has absolute powerand can change it at any(prenominal) time.3. The speaker compares himself to an unfaithful wife who has beencaught and is taking her punishment willingly. The speaker alsocompares god to the absolute power of the husband in that era. Theenemy is compared to the devil who is the man that the wife is having