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A 5 page paper which examines the purpose of Donne’s
rhetorical questions in Satire III and Holy Sonnet XVIII. No additional sources cited.
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the points that Donne is making and/or the real questions he is asking. Through rhetorical questions one can often find answers. The following paper examines the purpose of the rhetorical
questions in Donnes Satire III and Holy Sonnet XVIII. Satire III The first rhetorical question of Satire III comes to us in the first stanza. Donne offers the following
in the first few lines: "Kind pity chokes my spleen; brave scorn forbids/ Those tears to issue which swell my eyelids;/ I must not laugh, nor weep sins and be
wise;/ Can railing, then, cure these worn maladies?" (Donne 1-4). This opens the satire by asking if complaining about something makes it better. This is not a question that expects
an answer and is thus rhetorical. And, in asking this question he sets the stage to illustrate that complaining about pain and suffering does not make things different and thus
perhaps the individual needs to find another answer to lifes pain and suffering. From hereon out the first third of the poem is filled with rhetorical questions of one kind
or another. They all ask questions that deal with human nature, religion and the struggles and pride of mankind. For example, at one point Donne asks, "Darst thou aid mutinous
Dutch, and darst thou lay/ Thee in ships wooden sepulchres, a prey/ To leaders rage, to storms, to shot, to dearth?/ Darst thou dive seas, and dungeons of the earth?/
Hast thou courageous fire to thaw the ice/ Of frozen North discoveries?" (Donne 17-22). Throughout this poem he directs questions as the reader that do not need answers, questions that
essentially answer themselves in many ways. And, in the second half of the poem he seems to address these questions quite aggressively, almost question for question, giving the reader solid
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