What is the purpose of the paradox in these lines from the poem? Take me to you, imprison me, for I, Except you enthrall me, never shall be free, Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
The paradoxes are
because of the writer and his logic which will only be persuaded that God exists
and that He is powerful only when he will be able to see an example of it with
his own eyes. The writer desperately desires it so, because he believes it will
be the one that will “save” him.
