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Donn wrote this poem in 1611 as he was leaving home to go visit his mother.  This poem is to his wife to cheer her up.

Line 6.  Tear-floods & sigh-tempests are Petrarchan images (Petrarch made the sonnet popular).

Line 13.  We should not mourn because if love is more than physical, relationships continue because the soul still lives. Those whose only have the senses of the body cannot stand separation because the senses depend on the object of affection being present.

Line 21 ~ Their relationship is stretched thin but not breached or broken. It's expanded. He is leaving to go on a trip, but promises he will return.

He compares their souls to compasses. This is the image of the compass you would use in geometry, which was another popular image at the time.  The points may be far apart, but they are connected in the center.  The further apart the points are, the more the compass legs lean toward each other.  She stays put while he traces the path around, and as long as she remains firm, he'll return to the same spot he started from.

17. In lines 30-33 (“From . . . remarkable”), the narrator suggests that the woman appears to have (A) been overwhelmed by suffering (B) found comfort in her memories (C) learned to suppress her grief (D) grown weary of her life (E) reached a point of acquiescence

1Batter my heart, three-person'd God, for you

2As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend;

3That I may rise and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend

4Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.

5I, like an usurp'd town to another due,

6Labor to admit you, but oh, to no end;

7Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend,

8But is captiv'd, and proves weak or untrue.

9Yet dearly I love you, and would be lov'd fain,

10But am betroth'd unto your enemy;

11Divorce me, untie or break that knot again,

12Take me to you, imprison me, for I,

13Except you enthrall me, never shall be free,

14Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.

1Little Lamb who made thee

2         Dost thou know who made thee

3Gave thee life & bid thee feed.

4By the stream & o'er the mead;

5Gave thee clothing of delight,

6Softest clothing wooly bright;

7Gave thee such a tender voice,

8Making all the vales rejoice!

9         Little Lamb who made thee

10         Dost thou know who made thee

11         Little Lamb I'll tell thee,

12         Little Lamb I'll tell thee!

13He is called by thy name,

14For he calls himself a Lamb:

15He is meek & he is mild,

16He became a little child:

17I a child & thou a lamb,

18We are called by his name.

19         Little Lamb God bless thee.

20         Little Lamb God bless thee.

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