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Teachers' Resource Web Study Questions on John Donne Holy
Sonnet 14 1. What Poetic device is used most thematically in this sonnet? Catalog all examples. 2. I would argue that the paradox in this poem is doubled. That is to say not only is the image of a paradoxical three-personed god needed to achieve salvation, but this saving paradox must work through division to achieve the final resolution desired. How do this poem's formal elements or structure bear out this paradoxical paradox? 3. What the various conceits in this sonnet and how are they used thematically? 4. Is the rhetoric of love/rape ironic in a Holy Sonnet? What other discourses oppose or complement the erotic register? |