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At The Round Earth's Imagined Corners - Coggle Diagram
At The Round Earth's Imagined Corners
Language
religious imagery
'your trumpets, angels, arise, arise' - signals end of the world and entering afterlife, emphasised w repetition and line positioning
'Of souls, and to your scattered bodies go' - reincarnation
'flood did, and fire' - vicious fricative religious image
'sealed my pardon, with thy blood' - crucifixion image
'war, death, age, agues, tyrannies, despair, law' - apocalyptic asyndetic list
penitance
'my sins abound' - clear image of penitant sinner
'when we are there: here, on this lowly ground' - caesura shows opposition of places
'teach me how to repent' - imperative plea
Context
Biblical
Revelations 7:1 'I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth'
Corinthians 3:13 'fire will test the quality of each persons work'
Genesis flood
'agues' - disease in Corinthians
Donne was a lawyer: conflict with profession
conflict of his sexual appetite with his religious values
Structure
tense, abrupt opening: sets tone of poem
anaphora 'all whom' enhances tension
14 lines demonstrates sonnet: love of God
use of caesura adds tension
Themes and Comparison
Penitence: Redemption
Relationships: A Valediction of Weeping, St Lucy's Day, The Flea
scorn and anger: Woman's Constancy, Song, The Apparition