PARAPHRASE the passage (rewrite it in your own words). Do this paragraph by paragraph and make sure that your paraphrase includes all the major points in the passage. Remember paraphrasing is not changing every fifth word. It is rewriting a passage completely in your own words. Fully explore and explain the passage’s Main Idea.
The speaker begs God to enter their heat brutally rather than softly - to save them from their wrongs and the Devil. Despite what he desires, he is tied down by reason and sin, yet they declare their love for God, pleads that he stop their “marriage” to the Devil and take them for God’s own. They express their earthly lust rather than spiritual love for God.
Fully explain the passage’s CENTRAL ARGUMENT.
The speaker’s argument is that earthly love and spiritual love can be one and the same - a deep and eternal passion.
COPY DOWN and then EXPLAIN two assertions that support the central argument. “Batter my heart. . .make me new.” In the first section of the sonnet, he asks to be destroyed and “made new.” This is the salvation he desires. To have his sins broken and to face the adversity that would lead him through the pearly gates, to his lover. He wants to be battered, rather than knocked on, to be blown and not breathed on, to be burned and not shined on. He wants God to enter him, rather than watch over him. This is the opposite of what the orthodox request to God would be - they would want help, guidance: they would address God like they would an elder. Instead he treats God like a lover, and asking to be treated roughly, torn down, and born again. “But am betrothed unto your enemy, divorce me, untie, or break that knot again.” The speaker implies that he is married to the Devil, perhaps meaning that he is destined for Hell and wants God to intervene. The metaphor adds a human dimension to spiritual relations. He is going to marry the Devil and wants God to stop it. Marriage is at the core of human love, earthly love, so he makes a connection between that and the relationship humans have with the spiritual world. “I love you, and …show more content…
“You enthrall me, never shall be free, nor even chaste, except you ravish me.”
He express his carnal lust for God, tying into the love he desires. Ravish is a very erotic world, associated with human love, rather than anything that one would think of in a religious context.
Look up any words for which you do not know the definition. Write these words and their definitions. Remember that you will not be able to use a dictionary on the multiple-choice test over this passage.
I knew all the vocabulary!
COPY DOWN three examples of rhetorical strategies [one of the three appeals, any example of loaded diction, interesting syntax, or other significant rhetorical strategies. Identify what kind of strategy it is (label the example), and then explain the FUNCTION or EFFECT of the rhetorical strategy.
“Like an usurped town”
Simile
He compares himself to a town being seized. This expresses his unwillingness to go the Hell and desire for Heaven.
“You enthrall me, never shall be free, nor even chaste, except you ravish me.”
Loaded
The speaker begs God to enter their heat brutally rather than softly - to save them from their wrongs and the Devil. Despite what he desires, he is tied down by reason and sin, yet they declare their love for God, pleads that he stop their “marriage” to the Devil and take them for God’s own. They express their earthly lust rather than spiritual love for God.
Fully explain the passage’s CENTRAL ARGUMENT.
The speaker’s argument is that earthly love and spiritual love can be one and the same - a deep and eternal passion.
COPY DOWN and then EXPLAIN two assertions that support the central argument. “Batter my heart. . .make me new.” In the first section of the sonnet, he asks to be destroyed and “made new.” This is the salvation he desires. To have his sins broken and to face the adversity that would lead him through the pearly gates, to his lover. He wants to be battered, rather than knocked on, to be blown and not breathed on, to be burned and not shined on. He wants God to enter him, rather than watch over him. This is the opposite of what the orthodox request to God would be - they would want help, guidance: they would address God like they would an elder. Instead he treats God like a lover, and asking to be treated roughly, torn down, and born again. “But am betrothed unto your enemy, divorce me, untie, or break that knot again.” The speaker implies that he is married to the Devil, perhaps meaning that he is destined for Hell and wants God to intervene. The metaphor adds a human dimension to spiritual relations. He is going to marry the Devil and wants God to stop it. Marriage is at the core of human love, earthly love, so he makes a connection between that and the relationship humans have with the spiritual world. “I love you, and …show more content…
“You enthrall me, never shall be free, nor even chaste, except you ravish me.”
He express his carnal lust for God, tying into the love he desires. Ravish is a very erotic world, associated with human love, rather than anything that one would think of in a religious context.
Look up any words for which you do not know the definition. Write these words and their definitions. Remember that you will not be able to use a dictionary on the multiple-choice test over this passage.
I knew all the vocabulary!
COPY DOWN three examples of rhetorical strategies [one of the three appeals, any example of loaded diction, interesting syntax, or other significant rhetorical strategies. Identify what kind of strategy it is (label the example), and then explain the FUNCTION or EFFECT of the rhetorical strategy.
“Like an usurped town”
Simile
He compares himself to a town being seized. This expresses his unwillingness to go the Hell and desire for Heaven.
“You enthrall me, never shall be free, nor even chaste, except you ravish me.”
Loaded