"Holy Sonnet 14" and "Meditation 17"

14- author

John Dunne

Speaker’s request of God

-       Bend, blow, break, burn seek to mend

-       To make him new, first has to crush and destroy him, breaking his simple will so he can create a new life and a new spirit in us

paradoxes

-       in order to be free, ask God to accept you in slave or imprison me, if God enslave us how free? Free to be who you were meant to be, because freed from self

-       no ever chased ravish me, not chased unless the Lord takes him over completely

-       His righteousness

similes and metaphors

·      simile- usurped town

·      - metaphor- betrothed to the enemy, break that knot- deputy sheriff, can’t trust his reason

“Meditation 17” author

John dunne

“Meditation 17”

for whom the bell tolls?

symbolize death

3 conceits?

-       Says- I must die everyone is going to die, inevitable

-       The bell symbolizes the inevitability of death and how it calls us all, heaven calls

-       Daily prayer bell- reminder of bell of death, devote yourself to God

-       1- man is being compared to a page in a book, translated to this life into eternity

-       When the person dies they are translated into something better verse dying and that is the end

-       God is the AUTHOR of the book…eternal life

-       Chapters are different stories of each person’s life but all believers receive eternal life, are translated into something greater NOT THE END

-       2- No Man is an island- idea that unified

-       Man is a piece of dirt -> a continent

-       If one piece washed away as much as if a whole country washed away

-       No one is alone

-       The bell rings for you

-       “I am involved in mankind…”

-       No borrowing of misery- when one is called we are too because no man is an island

-       3- Affliction is a treasure.

-       It grows us, matures how are we made fit for God?

-       It draws us near to Him