A Weird Message

John Donne poses an interesting request in Batter my heart, three-personed God.  He desires to give himself fully to God.  He tells God to "Batter [his] heart... for you as yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend," (Donne, 840).  He wants God to save him from sin.  The speaker believes he cannot escape the world of sin.  He claims to be married to the devil and his ways, and can only be saved by being taken from him.  This poem has a rather sexual undertone.  It basically says that God needs to seduce the speaker in order for the speaker to be saved from sin.  It also says that the speaker in bound the sin and evil.  The speaker has the greatest of intentions to escape a world of sin, but knows that he is unable to do so.