A Restoration of Power: Metaphor, Simile, and Imagery in Donne's "Batter My Heart"

Restoring power: Use of metaphor, metaphor, and image in John Donne's "striking my heart" In most world religions, although the gods are omnipotent, they are depraved, human understanding As a method of giving human qualities. Unlike the typical attribution of human emotions and the response to the existence of God, John Dawn's "Battering My Heart" is furthermore an anthropomorphic figure by telling God as three different persons, inventors, rulers, lovers Accept the conversion. However, although Dawn has humanized the god with metaphor and sneaky characters, the use of his violent image regained respect for God's mighty God.

The military metaphor is one of the oldest medicines and they are still the most common. Before Louis Pasteur developed the intruder's image to explain the theory of bacteria in the 1860's, John Dawn repeatedly thought about "the tragic situation of mankind" and said "siege." Defiant fever will blow up like a heart. "" Canon defeats everyone, knocks down all, demolishes everyone ... we will instantly destroy it. "As Heippocrates It is the most famous doctor of the known 17th century and often introduces military language to Western medical terms. When writing in the middle of the 17th century, West Denham insisted that "we must fight a series of diseases and this battle is not a fight for lazy people." His purpose is to investigate the disease, understand his personality, and destroy with confidence "go directly and completely". "

John Dawn revealed a sad, delusive attitude towards the essence of love, using images in his poem "Broken Heart". This poem is how the heart of Dawn is broken. Each section is the decline of his heart. Not only did he build credibility with his stazza, he also built his own and creative pictures that gave his power to his image. Stanza said love as a rapid attack, then a ruthless death. It sets the tone of a sad lover crushed by a loved one. Dorn uses images to compare love and plague, suggesting that someone can not bring fever to others for a long time before killing love and laughing that person. He also compares love with a burning powder bottle that helps his thinking and the speed of love.

This image helps the reader imagine the artist's work more realistically. In many cases, images are built on other literary devices such as metaphor, metaphor, anthropomorphism, personification. Because writers appeal to comparison, except that it requires a language to appeal to the physical sensation. One of the most powerful devices in literature is an image that the author uses words and phrases to create a "psychological image" for the reader. The image can also be related to the sensation of the body (motion picture) or to the details (organic image or subjective image) of the person's emotions or sensations during movement or exercise such as fear or hunger.