Batter my heart, three-personed God

"Batter my heart, three-personed God" by John Donne

"Take me to you, imprison me" (Donne, line 12).

This poem exemplified irony as a way to reach the meaning. The irony of what the speaker requests God to do in this poem is not what would typically be asked of God. The speakers mentions that he is captive by the devil or an evil. In order to get out of prison with the devil, God must release him and imprison him in God. The irony of the contrast between what is expected and what the speaker requests  allows for a meaning to come across. The speaker appears to be blaming God for be wrapped in evil. I would believe that most religions believe that you must come to God. Instead, this speaker wants God to come get him from the evil he is in. Also, this poem can be taken and applied to many things. When we are wrapped in an evil such as fighting with our parents or siblings or being alcoholic  we may want to blame God for letting us leave him for the evil. This poem expresses that attitude. Instead, we can take this poem and see how it does not work that way. We must escape the evil and return to God instead.