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General commentary on holy sonnets
"If lecherous goats...cannot be damned, alas, why should I be?" The poet of the Holy Sonnets John Donne, uses certainty as well as an impulse towards talking to God "the lord" and creator of the universe. The poem presents the theme of guilt and being "damned" as Donne would say when in fact us humans are the ones to be spared since God was the one that gave us the pleasure to think and have reason. Basically what the poet is trying to say is his soul to be spared when judgement day comes along; by sparing his soul it's meant that he wants his sins and all the dreadful things that he did to be forgotten so in when God comes he is repented and therefore sent to heaven. The most important and strongest feature in my opinion that Donne presents to the reader I the progression throughout the poem, about all else that god has created having no reason or for that matter sense in what they are doing and yet they are sinning in the eyes of god not be judged, but he which is doing the exact same things as the goats and trees and minerals
We can see that this is expressed in the eight lines where he writes "why should intent. Humans cant help doing what their instincts or "gut" tells them what to do. We can see that in the first eight lines he is in a complaining tone to God and expressing what he truly feels deep inside; he's asking if animals and plants cant be condemned to hell they "why should be" if that the nature inside of him and a nature given by God himself why blame him, why cant God be blamed, after all he is the one that created all of us and for that matter he should be able to know what was to come in the future if he gave humans reason. Donne comments on this in his sonnet by using a progression in the poem, first showing anger and resentment and them showing repentance and pleads for mercy. be judged if God was the one that gave him sense and reason and knowledge? If a rock is responding to it's nature then so is he. The progressiveness of the poem starts very general with "poisonous minerals" this is meant by rocks and other non living organisms which are inanimate, however they can cause sin when they are being thrown and ergo a physical result; the next one is a "tree" which although is not animate its living because it can breathe; we can see how Donne relates this to the sonnet as we know that a tree was the first that brought sin into the world ergo the forbidden fruit, because this was the first sin Donne argues that it is a bit general but nevertheless always a sin and so from the first day that the world was created. He continues in his progression with a step up from the unresponsive objects and continues with the animate by including a "goat" into the picture; goats by all means are "lecherous" or obsessed with sexual lust, which is a sin and from this we can clearly see that the poet by including a living creature takes out the super natural of sins, that is the serpent which is another living creature which also is said to be the devil which is the tempter; in a way we may argue that Donne sues this to tell the reader that everyone has a serpent inside of them which could be the reason or knowledge that we have inside of us, a goat does not have this as it does not think while if we humans are thinking we have the serpent inside of us which is taking us to lust and sin. born in me, make sins, else equal, in me more heinous?" with this he is saying that his sins and the sins of animals are of the equal strength and amount, the only problem that he seems to encounter with is the fact that animals don't have reason in what they are doing, while us humans do.
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