"But am betrothed unto your enemy"
Batter my heart, three-personed God
As implyed by the title, I believe the speaker of this poem is talking to God. He references the relationship that many humans seem to have with God; they love him, but are often drawn away. I think that when the speaker talks about being "betrothed unto your enemy," he is talking about the tendency of humans to be drawn to sin and the devil. The speaker "never shall be free" of God, because God is always there for us. Perhaps the speaker is asking for forgiveness, as when he says "make me new." Apparently all three persons are discussed in the poem; I was able to notice the Holy Spirit's presence by the words "breathe" and "blow", but the other two didn't stand out to me as much. Those words in the first quatrain also call to mind royal images, though. Is the speaker comparing God to a ruler? Rulers break and bend their subjects, seek to fix them, make them into new people. If so, I don't particularly like the comparison, because I think of God as loving and rulers as NOT. Maybe, therefore, that it not what the speaker is comparing God to at all.
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