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Donne's divine poetry are ultimately poems of faith despite expressing "fear, a sense of denial, depression and insecurity." His strong faith in God has led to his fear of rejection and isolation from God. Fear, a sense of denial, depression and insecurity are prevalent in most divine poems when Donne sin but as Donne is plagued with sickness, he seems to embrace death and sees it as a blessing and paradise. In "As due by many titles I resigne", Donne expresses great "fear, a sense of denial, depression and insecurity" in God. He feels helpless, despair and depress when God refuses to help. ("Oh I shall soone despaire, when I doe see / That thou lov'st mankind well, yet wilt' not chuse me") Donne feels a sense of denial from God when He refuses to "rise and for thine owne worke fight". He is fearful when Satan, who hates him, refuses to let him go. Donne has sinned by letting the "devill usurpe in mee." However, when Satan refuses to "lose mee", Donne continues to fall even deeper without God's help which thus heightened his "fear, a sense of denial, depression and insecurity." Donne laments on God's double standards in "if poysonous mineralls". Indeed, "fear, a sense of denial, depression and insecurity" are prominent features in this divine poem. He feels utterly depressed and bitter that God has made his sin even "more heinous" when "lecherous goats, if serpents envious", which are associated with the devil and the "tree whose fruits threw death on else immortall us" are not condemned.
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