John Donne
The most interesting dialogue about this poem in class to me was when we discerned to which part of God do these metaphors belong: knock, breathe, and shine as well as break, flow, burn. I thought that knock/break referred to Jesus, breathe/blow referred to God as a parental figure, and shine/burn referred to the Holy Spirit. In religious literature, from Christianity to Hinduism, the image of God breathing over the waters or the deep, or in some translations chaos is very common. God initiated the universe coming into existence by God's breath. I think shine/burn is the Holy Spirit (from a Christian perspective) because of the story of Pentecost in the Bible. Those present received tongues of flames over them, and they were able to communicate to many peoples. As for knock and break, Jesus seemed the most likely to me because according to Biblical Theology, Jesus rose the third day after his crucifixion, the stone was moved away from the tomb and Jesus walked and was alive again. I think this is parallel with "break" as some force broke away the stone.
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