Question

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Answer 1

Passage
Batter My Heart, Three Person'd God (Holy Sonnet 14)
by John Donne

Batter my heart, three-personed 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 usurped town, to another due,
Labour to admit you, but Oh, 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 betrothed 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.

Answer 2

What is the purpose of the paradox in these lines from the poem?
Take me to you, imprison me, for I,
Except you enthrall me, never shall be free,
Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.

Answer 3

It emphasizes the poet’s urge for redemption.
It reflects the poet’s challenge to God.
It highlights the poet’s stubborn nature.
It signifies the poet’s hatred toward God.

Answer 4

stubborn nature