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What is likened by a blacksmith in Donne’s poem?

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Faith

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The correct answer is:

God.

In the Holy Sonnets Batter my heart, three-person'd God, by John Donne, God is compared in the opening quatrain to a blacksmith venturing to hammer unmanageable material into shape.

This poem uses the Italian or Petrarchan sonnet form. In it, Donne is summoning upon God to take hold of him and consume him.

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