Question

Read the lines from Donne's "Sonnet 14 (Batter My Heart, Three-Person'd God)" and answer the question.

Batter my heart, three-person'd God; for you
As yet but knock; breathe, shine and seek to mend;
That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend
Your force, to break, blow, burn, and make me new

In these lines, the speaker uses descriptions like these figuratively to personify _____.

A. Bitter Irony

B.Internal Struggle

C.desire for perfection

D.abstract thoughts about God

Answer 1

The answer to this question remains in the question itself. This sonnet is a masterpiece which has signs of internal struggle digged deep inside and an interest in bestowing oneself in the lap of God so that God can make him get rid of his sins. As we need to answer what these lines personifies to, it will be God.

Thus, the correct answer is Option D.