Batter My Heart, Three Person’d God is the first line of a deeply religious poem by John Donne that he wrote in the latter half of his life. It is also known as the Holy Sonnet 14 as it is the 14th religious sonnet out of the 19 Holy Sonnets that John Donne wrote. All these religious poems were published posthumously as a part of Poems in 1633.
John Donne wrote this poem in a mixed structure of Petrachen sonnets and Shakespearean or English sonnets. The poet begins in Petrachen structure of ABBA ABBA but concludes the poem in a quatrain blended over a rhyming couplet (CDCD CC). In continuity, it appears as a combination of an Octet and a Sestet with rhyming scheme ABBA ABBA CDCD CC.
John Donne was a Catholic by birth but later on, he changed to the Anglican faith. He wrote these 19 Holy sonnets during the time of his transition from Catholicism to Anglicanism. He had a lot of doubts and confusion that he depicted in his writings. In this poem, the poet is addressing to Trinitarian God (Three Person’d God). The poet expresses a feeling of ‘Absence of God in his heart, body, and soul. The poet is suffering the ‘Agony of Religious Doubt.’ It is not like he is not convinced of God’s existence, but the poet is failing to feel the goodness and purity of God in his sinful corrupt life. John Donne had spent a lot of time in amorous acts and affairs. But after his beloved wife’s death, he lost interest in worldly relations and turned towards the path of God.
For the poet, religion is a matter of the heart. For Donne, passion is central to faith and he wants God to enter in him passionately. The poet needs to feel the passionate love of God to feel His purity in himself. The poet describes this need for the passionate love of God in erotic terms. He wants God to seduce him forcefully, consensually, and ravish him physically. To ravish here literally means to rape. Considering God as the only male, and thinking of himself as a female, the poet Begs God to take him forcefully. Since his original faith in Catholicism is now dwindling, and the poet realizes that whatever his past actions were, were sinful, he needs God to purify him. This purification cannot be gentle. The divine love needs to enter in him forcefully.
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