Question

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

"Yet dearly'I love you, and would be lov'd fain,
But am betroth'd unto your enemy;
Divorce me,'untie or break that knot again,
Take me to you, imprison me, for I,
Except you'enthrall me, never shall be free,
Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me."

Which two pairs of words from these lines create the paradox that readers must solve to understand the poem's theme? SELECT ALL THAT APPLY.

a.) love, fain
b.) divorce, untie
c.) enthrall, free
d.) chaste, ravish

Answer 1

enthrall, free

chaste, ravish

Step-by-step explanation:

correct on odyssey

Answer 2

The two pairs of words from these lines that create a paradox that readers must solve to understand the poem's theme are:

C) enthrall, free (because enthrall means to enslave, which is the opposite of free);

and

D) chaste, ravish (because chaste means to abstain from extramarital, or from all, sexual intercourse; and ravish means to give great pleasure to someone or to force a woman to have sex against her wishes.)