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Courtney PetersEssay 1 Rough DraftENG 3082/21/14Donne The Imprint Left BehindEvery writer leaves his mark, his imprint, in his composition a thumb print left behind the ink if you agnise how to look for it, and Donne is no exception. The problem is extracting Donnes imprint, and essence, from the poem, and understanding what that tells us close to him. In one poem in particular this stands away, his Holy sonnet IX, where Donnes imprint lingers, giving a nonher story behind the text, of his feeling in God, but too his inner questioning, and confliction and incertitude which come out as contradictions. Behind the text, Holy Sonnet IX, as Donne speaks through his talker and poem, we come to understand that he is a religious man, though conflicted, which leads to doubt and contradictions, as he resents God in a way, while also just craving for his absolution and for him to forget and forgive his sins and wash them away, sins which weightlift on him heavily and he believes taint h im.Looking at Donnes Holy Sonnet IX, you can see where parts of his self be hidden under the text, if you only know how to look and how to interpret what you find. Donne repeats I throughout the poem three times, and while doing so he non only reflects parts of his inner self, but changes his stand point all(prenominal) time. In the first instance of I, Donne writes, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious/Cannot be damnd Alas why should I bee? (3-4). Here he questions God, demanding to know why he should be damned when the lecherous goats, and serpents cannot not be condemned and damned for their sins. The second instance of I however writes, only if whou am I, that dare dispute with thee/O God? Oh of thine onely worthy blood, where he shifts from angrily questioning... ...e forgotten and he is not damned by them. The antic and imagery emphasize the severity of his desire for God to forget his sins, the sins which he emphasizes by referring to them as black sins utilizing sev ere linguistic process in profession them thus, to further darken the already negative connotation of his sins and their evilness. The allusion speaks of the greatness of Donnes sorrow, in that he would cry a river, his wish in the end, to a greater extent than anything, for his sins to be forgotten and him undammed, and his thoughts on sins, that they are black, his darkness, his taint, his embarrassment, indebting him to God who in upset damns him.-- Create a conclusion, short, but sums upWhat I mean by ImprintHow his imprint shines throu, aka, what we learn of him fromHis usage of IHis patternHis allusions, imagery, and languageShould be one per paragraph for most