problem here, unlike in a number of Donne's other Holy Sonnets (such as I am a little world made cunningly or O, to vex me); he is sure of what he needs and how to reach his end goal. However, he cannot easily have exactly what he wants as it requires God's intervention. This can be further indicated by the desperate tone of the poem and the fact that "God's silence is most striking" here. Lines one through four In the first four lines of the poem, the speaker voices his need of being violated and forcefully remade by God, in order to get the promised salvation; his soul cannot be repaired, and it must be destroyed completely. This process of conversion is often associated with the Calvinist doctrine of Total Depravity; in the words of the Cambridge theologian William Perkins: "he that will beleeve in Christ must be annihilated, that is he must be bruised and battered to a flat nothing..." The act of suffering to gain life after death is typical for Calvinists, especially Puritans. This religious group was known for their extreme doctrines regarding subjecting oneself to God, one of them being a process called "humiliation" which included a masochistic and self destructive belief that "[t]he will had to be crushed before it would be, or while it was being, taken over by God." In the first quatrain, there is an aura of expectation present, disclosed by phrases "as yet" and "That I may rise," that adds to the progression and longed for continuity of "past, present and future actions." Bellette notices that "[t]here is also a similar logical order in the placing of parallel [subordinating] elements within the strong government of 'for' and 'that.'" Lines five through eight In the next four lines, the speaker compares himself to a seized ("usurp'd") town that fails to let God in, and tries to communicate "that he himself is trying to admit God back (…) but 'to no end' (i.e., he is not able to accomplish the task)." The desperate tone is strengthened by the sad "O". The faculty of Reason, personified as God's "viceroy" that rules inside the speaker-town, is a gift from God that was supposed to protect the speaker from Satan and temptation but fails to do so, as it is described to "prove weak or untrue." The wording of the poem suggests that Reason is