Mueller talks about the power imbalance in heterosexual couples as shown through the perspectives of the male speakers, and I was interested in how the power differences translate to his religious works like the Holy Sonnets. In relation to God, the male speaker is no longer the dominant figure and instead becomes the subordinate. His subservient position seems more motivated by “fear rather than love of God” (148). Because at the time God was often thought of as a male being, I thought it would be interesting to look at the speaker-God relationship in light of other homosocial/erotic/sexual relationships that involve power dynamics, such as the pederastic master-servant relationship. In Holy Sonnet 14, for example, the speaker—who is, as a Christian, a servant of God—asks for God to “enthrall” (13) and “ravish” (14) him, which has a sexual connotation of domination. Donne’s use of sexual language in a religious context offers a slightly confusing understanding of sexuality and power in relation to Christianity.