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Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Email required Address never made public. Name required. Follow Following. One way he does this is by the speaker trying to ask God for forgiveness of his sins and another is that is love is painful. In this particular sonnet, I am going to focus on the theme of love. The speaker here is explaining that he himself is like a little world with many elements, one being his body and the other being his soul.

He goes on to say that black sin has created darkness in his world and that his world must die. I believe he is explaining that his lover torments him because she has sinned in some way that we do not know of yet and it hurts him so bad that he feels as if he should die, both physically and mentally. In these lines he is referring to his lover as someone higher that God and heaven because of the large amount of love he has for her.

Now, we see that earlier in the poem when he was talking about his world must die because of the darkness; he was referring to his lover as the sun or light and without her or the light the world or himself will die. This poem uses devotion to bind the petitionary lyrical poem with the act of seeking patronage. In this poem, Donne details the agony of sin and the salvation of God's grace. Donne uses eloquence and elegant diction in order to evoke pathos in this sonnet.

He does this throughout the sonnet, delineating the gift of human life given by God and cured by God when tarnished by sin. This is not about a desire for suffering as indicated by the plea for fire, but a desire for salvation. Psalm Only the "fiery zeal" has the capability of saving a sinner.

Line 4 also struck me as beautifully written: "My world's both parts, and oh both parts must die.