John Donne's Holy Sonnets

Upon reading the Holy Sonnets of John Donne, one is opened to somewhat of a different person than imagined, compared to reading such poems as his A Valediction Forbidding Mourning or The Flea. Whereas the latter center around very optimistic love themes, the former center around very self-effacing themes of spiritual inadequacy and even religious abomination. To fully understand the kind tortured psyche that is presented, a complete comprehensive analysis would need to be done for all the Sonnets, and perhaps other works as well. But a highly abridged analysis could be made on just one sonnet with roughly the same insight; the one presented here being, "As due by many titles I resigne."
In this Sonnet, Donne presents the struggle of a person who is torn between God's love and his domination by his own sin. The Sonnet can be portioned into three different sections: the submission, the veneration, and then the invocation. In the first part of the sonnet, we see the person announce t...