Hi.
This semester I am taking a poetry class. My reasoning behind it was because it would be an easy English course to take. That is a bad reason. But I learning a lot in the class, and I actually like it quite a bit. My reasons for taking it were really shallow, but I actually really like it now, and I getting into some cool stuff. I have come across two poems in particular that really have spoken to me. One of them is called 'Holy Sonnet 14' and it's written by john Donne. His main career was as a preacher, and in that, wrote some really incredible stuff. This poem goes through so many emotions on a spiritual level. For me, I read about temptation, pain, shame, guilt, forgiveness, and an unconditional and mysterious love.
What do you get out of it?




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. 


'Holy Sonnet 14' 
John Donne (1633)