In "Holy Sonnet XIV" By John Donne, Donne asks God to help him. The way Donne believes God can help him is by Donne being beaten down by God only to rise up. Because Donne asks God to heat him down, he is asking God to do a violent action. The first quatrain shows Donne asking God to be violent in the intensification of verbs. The second quatrain shows Donne asking God to be violent when Donne uses the imagery of a city taken over and how he longs for God to come into the city. The third quatrain shows Donne asking God to be violent when Donne says, "break that knot again."(Donne, line 11) Donne wants God to break his union with sin. The couplet shows Donne asking God to be violent when Donne asks God to take him and imprison him because he wants to be...