The poem contains the words "break, blow, burn, and make me new".
Take this, for example: Batter my heart, three-person'd God, for you As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
It is siphoning the oil through hoses attached to the broken blow-out preventer on the sea floor.
At midnight, the choir broke into "Blow Ye Trumpets Blow, the Year of Jubilee has Come".
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BREAK, BLOW, BURN, by Camille Paglia.
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Her new book, "Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-Three of the World's Best Poems," will be published in March.
(The physicist had the Donne sonnet in mind — "break, blow, burn, and make me new" — when he called the site Trinity).
This format follows the plan of her 2005 collection of commentaries on English-language poems, "Break, Blow, Burn," which spans several centuries from Shakespeare to Joni Mitchell.
Paglia communicates such intensity at times in "Break, Blow, Burn," when she writes about the poetry of Dickinson or Donne or Wallace Stevens.
