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RELIGION (IMAGERY, MOTIFS AND TONER (Motif: Sleep (Holy Sonnet X ("…

- - - - "Tears in this eyes quench the amazing light"
      - Eyes are the windows to the soul
  - - - "Two bloods mingled be" - associated with marriage, sex and Christs blood
      - "Purpled thy nail in blood of innocence" - Christ was murdered innocently as the speaker was
    - - "Blood fills his frown" - religious suffering
  - - - "Tears in His eyes quench the amazing light" - reference to the light of God
      - "The picture of Christ crucified"
      - "Can that tunes adjudge thee unto hell" - Continual references to Judgement in Holy Sonnets
    - - "Never taste death's woe"
      - Those who are virtuous on Judgement Day do not go through death
      - "From death, you numberless infinities" - all the souls that are dead and alive
      - "Shall behold God"
      - "Your trumpets, angels" - Trumpets announce the apocalypse where should that have died on earth awaken and rejoin with their bodies
  - - - "Our marriage bed and marriage temple"
      - "sacrilege, three sins in killing three" - stealing of something scared
      - "Three lives in one flea spare" - Father, son and the Holy Spirit
    - - "Love's hallowed temple"
      - "Thou Angels brings with thee a heaven like Mahomet's Paradise"
      - What little he knows of Islam is sensuous pleasure. His lover is regarded as an angel
  - - - "One short sleep past, we wake eternally"
      - Soul, death, eternal life - the body dies and the soul lives on
    - - "good morrow to our waking souls"
      - Lovers are awaking to a new way of seeing the world. Sex has taken them to a spiritual place
    - - "as true deaths, true marriages unite, so lover's contracts .. bind but till sleep, deaths image"
      - Contracts of marriage are ended only by death, lesser binding contracts made between lovers in a moment of passion will be ended by sleep, which resembles death
    - - "but let them sleep, Lord"
      - Asking God to delay the apocalypse and give them more time for judgement