Holy Sonnet 14 - Batter my heart"e; by John Donne. An Interpretation

Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,7, University of Stuttgart, language: English, abstract: This essay will show how the lyric persona in "e;Holy Sonnet XIV"e; fully self-abandons himself with help of various stylistic devices. The 14th Holy Sonnet by John Donne, who lived from 1572 until 1631, was written around 1609, but it was not until after his death that his son published it in 1633. As one of the most acknowledged metaphysical poets, John Donne especially had a comeback by the publication of T.S Eliot s essays The Metaphysical Poets and Andrew Marvell in 1921.