Batter my hear, three-personed God

As deduced from the title, Donne's poem is addressed to the trinity (the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit). This poem is a sonnet as shown with the fourteen lines.The poem is filled with paradoxes that display the speaker's desire to grow closer to God. My personal favorite of these paradoxes is: "Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me." I highly doubt Donne intended for this line to be funny, but the irony of it just makes me laugh. The speaker asks God to ravish him; what is not funny about that? On a serious note, this line does hold some truth. the speaker is saying the only way he can be chaste is if God loves him. Another paradox in the poem is essence says that the speaker cannot be free unless God imprisons him. The message of this poem is that sin is inevitable. The speaker knows sin is inevitable, so he pleads for go to take him away from the situation of being able to sin. The speaker is almost ashamed of his human nature, which causes his plea to God.