Batter My Heart, Three-personed God

Question 1

“Batter my heart three person’d God”

Answer 1

Imperative opening, violence, Holy Trinity

Question 2

“knock, breathe, shine and seek to mend”

Answer 2

Syntax - mend at end and batter at start
6 verbs in 2 two lines - action
Contrast in how the speaker wants to be treated and how God treats them

Question 3

“knock, breathe, shine and seek to mend”

Answer 3

Syntax - mend at end and batter at start
6 verbs in 2 two lines - action
Contrast in how the speaker wants to be treated and how God treats them

Question 4

“rise and stand, o’erthrow me”

Answer 4

Strength, forceful

Question 5

“break, blow, burn, and make me new”

Answer 5

Contrast in tricolons in line 2 and 4
Harsh alliteration
Restart rather than fix or repair

Question 6

“I like an usurp’d town to another due”

Answer 6

Conceit
Doubting faith compared to a town under attack

Question 7

“Labour to admit you”, “oh”

Answer 7

Tries to let God in, but is associated with sin
Desperation to be punished by God to reach salvation