Because Donne describes the connection between the body and union with God in the form of poetry, Donne is able to evoke his readers. Unlike readers of Augustine who simply read about Augustine's anguish and experience, those who read Donne's poems actually experience anguish, frustration, and ultimately the inevitable dependence on God that most Christian followers he ultimately experiments on the road to redemption. Furthermore, by writing in Petrarchan sonnet form, Donne provides an alternative meaning to Augustine's medieval concept of the journey of souls to unity with God. In examining Donne's language, which is permeated with many emotions, Donne introduces the new idea that the journey to redemption involves not only a movement away from loving sin, but a movement towards loving oneself so that one is not afraid to be loved. In other words, Donne introduces, through his diction, that the process of redemption involves self-love, which, in turn, will allow one to accept the already existing will of God.