BATTER MY HEART, THREE-PERSONED GOD by John Donne

CRITICAL APPRECIATIONAs the very title of the sonnet suggests, it is a passionate and forceful appeal to God to take possession of the poet’s heart. The intensity of the poet’s feeling is conveyed by the word ‘batter’. To batter means to pound repeatedly, to deal heavy repeated blows, to beat persistently and hard. The poet vehemently prays to the Christian Trinity—God the Father, God the Son (