Batter my heart, three personed God, for You As yet but knock, breathe, shine and seek to mend. That I may rise and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new. I, like an usurped town to another due, ... . The first line of "Batter my Heart, three- personed God, for You" begins with "batter my heart, three-personed God, for You as yet but knock, breathe, shine and seek to mend." The word batter denotes in context to this poem, to strike with repeated blows of an instrument or weapon, or with frequent missiles; to beat ... " is a metaphor for the heart as it...

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• Grade Level: High School

... to succeed, no goals or expectations, you don't need any of those. It's like saying you start out like a tree seed, you know just when it's your time to go shine, to feel the power you did not have when you were alive. You listen carefully to the spirit who is talking to you from above, he says it's your time ... to shine. Your time to begin your new life, not being in pain, to succeed everything you did not succeed a second ago. When you enter the light, you know that you have ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... , my old bus stop. It was a place I knew well for two years of my life. Memories of Jr. High come rushing to my mind. I spent many mornings, through rain and shine waiting for that big, black, and yellow bus to come pick me up and whisk me off to school. When I approach the edge of the sidewalk, I stop and my mind ... ...

• Word Count: 1353
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School