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Holy Sonnet 14 By John Donne And Countee Cullen

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Thesis
John Donne and Countee Cullen are both vulnerable when they ask why God has given them traits that they feel do not benefit them. Both Donne and Cullen turn to God when their hopelessness becomes too overwhelming for them to handle without Gods assistance. Cullen questions why God made him a black poet during his time, where racism would affect his life greatly. While Donne ask God to take away his free will because his free will has become his weakness. Topic sentence 1
In “Holy Sonnet 14”, John Donne talks to God because feels that his free will allows him to be tempted by temptation.
Topic Sentence 2
In “Yet Do I Marvel” by Countee Cullen, Cullen questions why God made him a black poet during a time where racism
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