Essays Tagged: "Battle of Fleurus (1794)"
holy sonnets by john done
imes pleads with, and other times questions God or Death. He considers himself a sinner in constant battle with a foe that is the Devil, needing God's grace to win this fight and become, in effect, fr ... elf and Death, and the word "overthrow" repeats the situational metaphor that Death and he are in a battle, the stakes of which, as the poem goes on to establish, are his life and immortal soul. The s ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Drama