Analysis Of John Donne, Emily Dicks, And Michael Obi With...

In this paper I will argue about the struggles John Donne, Emily Dicks, and Michael Obi with the idea of believing and follow God. The speaker in Holy Sonnet 14 struggles with not deserving to have a relationship with God. Emily Dickson fights with if there is an afterlife and if it is real (Poem 501). Michael Obi struggles with whole ideas of religion and looking to the past since he is all about the looking forward (Death Men’s Path). The themes that are underlines is the desire to reconnect with God, believing in a God, but with some doubts, and completely not wanting a relationship with God at all. In the Holy Sonnet 14 the speaker in the poem is expressing that he is a believer in God, but wants God to make a presence in his life. The speaker of the poem is asking God to increase the strength of divine force to win over his soul â€Å"Batter my heart, three-personed God† (line 1). The speaker of the poem is telling God that he wants him to use more force to assault his heart. That God has only knocked on the door, only after the scriptural ideas to write down that God knocks and that each person must let him in, is not working for the speaker. This relates to the larger argument that they are firm believers in God, but they need more attention for God in order to follow him. In the next line the speaker expresses God need to enter his life more with a force in order to make the speaker new again â€Å"As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend; that I may