greykit.poetry · #violence

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1928 [w-b-yeats] Leda and the Swan
The Tower

A sudden blow, and the whole Trojan war folded into it — the broken wall, the burning roof and tower and Agamemnon dead — closing on the question of whether she put on his knowledge with his power.

#sonnet #myth #violence #1920s
1633 [john-donne] Holy Sonnet XIV: Batter my heart, three person’d God
Holy Sonnets

A prayer that asks God to stop knocking and start breaking: the speaker is a usurped town whose viceroy reason has proved untrue, and only being imprisoned can free him, only being ravished can make him chaste.

#sonnet #religion #violence #1630s

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