I refound this poem that i read a few years ago and really liked....wrote an essay on it in college actually. Ahhh essays, i'm back to doing those again.
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 usurpe'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 betrothe'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.
john donne
what do you think?
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oh man, poetry and i DO NOT get along! I just can't understand its deeper meanings.
:(
Wow. I love that poem. We studies Donne in High School, but I wasn't very good at it. "Betrothe'd unto your enemy" the work we have cut out for us, eh? Have you read The Shack, yet?
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