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"Except you enthrall me, never shall be free, Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me." Unless You capture my attention/affection, never shall I be free, nor shall I ever be sexually pure, unless You fill me with Your delight. I do not believe he was asking God to engage him sexually at all. Rather, he was acknowledging his need of spiritual delight in order to overcome his carnal desires, namely sexual lust. It appears that he was a slave to his sexual appetite and understood that his freedom could only come from being spiritually fulfilled. This poem is a beautiful humble plea for help.

I would suggest that "batter" does not mean "destroy" at all, though it is a call to violent engagement. Perhaps also "shine" should not be taken as God "shining on me" but as an action parallel to knocking, breathing, and mending. I think the conceit is that of a tinker who repairs/refurbishes pots and the like, knocking out dents, breathing moisture upon the surface and rubbing it to restore its shine, and so forth. Donne thus calls upon God to do more than tinker with him! (I once had mistaken the "knocking" for "knocking at the heart" to come in as well, but that seems not to be the dominant image here for it, too, doesn't give proper weight to all the other verbs in the second line.)

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To understand this poem you need to read Romans 7 and the first verse of 8, “Who shall save me from this body of death?”

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I wonder if there is any significance in the relationship between "three-person'd God" and the two sets of three words Knock, Breathe, Shine and their more violent counterparts Break, Blow, Burn. I think it's possible to equate the first three with the three persons of the Trinity. "Knock" from Revelation 3:20, where Jesus knocks on the door and we have to open the door and let him in, "Breathe" could indicate God the Father - the first creative act with a human being to "breathe the breath of life" in to Adam's nostrils (in Genesis ch 2), and "Shine" could indicate the light of the holy spirit. Then the three counterparts become more violent versions. Knock becomes Break (down the door), Blow (apart) and Burn. (possibly referring to the "refiner's fire" in Malachi - also text in Handel's Messiah.

This poem with its dual ' I seek U/

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chastity is not actually being without any sexual contact. Chastity is different from celibacy. It simply means to be sexually pure.

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Fabulous reading. What do you do with the word "enemy?" My students often read this as a reference to Satan, but that seems unlikely given Donne's faith.

Can you please do a understating “The Fall of the House is Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe.

It is paradoxical....

This poem is ... so funny for an immature guy such as me. Thanks for the video.

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Ravish means...to seize and takeover me in your kingdom as I will not ever be free!!

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imprison me = protect me. Protective custody.

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Thanks for your video! Maybe it's just me but the narrator of this poem doesn't sound very sincere at all.