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Violence
Violence is a way in which the speaker of Holy Sonnet 14 imagines God manifesting his love. God's more gentle efforts to remind the speaker of his presence haven't done the trick, so the speaker demands more extreme gestures like breaking, blowing, and burning.
The meter and phonetics of the concluding couplet suggest that sex is a gentler and more intimate act than the violent imagery around it would suggest.
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