A sonnet that begins "
A poem that compares the speaker's "black soul" to a prisoner asks it to become as red with blushing as it is with this word. The speaker asks God to make "a heavenly Lethean flood / and drown in it [this word]'s black memory" in a poem that ends "I think it mercy" if God will forget this word. That poem's speaker questions "why should intent or reason, born in me" make this word, "else equal," more heinous in him than "lecherous goats" and "poisonous minerals." A sonnet that begins "I am a little (*) world made cunningly" laments that this word "hath betrayed to endless night / My world's both parts, and oh, both parts must die." All of those sonnets are by John Donne, who also wrote one which argues that this word drags the speaker's "feeble flesh" towards hell. For 10 points, name these religious concepts that cause the speaker of the Holy Sonnets to despair that he will not be saved during the Last Judgment.
A poem that compares the speaker's "black soul" to a prisoner asks it to become as red with blushing as it is with this word.
sins