As yet but knocke, breathe, shine, and seeke to mend;

That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow mee' and bend

Your force, to breake, blowe, burn and make me new.

I, like an usurpt towne, to' another due,

Labour to' admit you, but Oh, to no end,

Reason your viceroy in mee, mee should defend,

But is captiv'd, and proves weake or untrue,

Yet dearely' I love you, and would be lov'd faine,

Divorce mee, 'untie, or breake that knot againe,

Take mee to you, imprison mee, for I

Except you' enthrall mee, never shall be free,

Nor ever chast, except you ravish mee.

"We do not come to Donne as we come to Shakespeare, whose space in history are in our blood and bones. Donne is surely not all we are and have been; he does not revive the memory of our whole selves" (Cathcart 1). In other word, John Donne's poetry is unfamiliar to the average reader. many people may understand the work of Shakespeare, for instance, only because it is frequently performed and studied. The study of Donne is different in terms of the ambiguity encountered in his work. many of his poems will logically support a vast number of interpretations. "Batter my heart,

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