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The Personification And Criticism Of Death In John Donne's "Death Be Not Proud."
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The Personification and Criticism of Death in John Donne's "Death Be Not
"No poem of John Donne's is more widely read or more directly
associated with Donne than the tenth of the Holy Sonnets, 'Death, be not
proud.'" (Dr. Gerald McDaniel, lecture). In this sonnet, Donne personifies
death in two wa ....
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....t even the
virtuous go with death, "And soonest our best men with thee do go" (l 7),
to be delivered to an eternal rest and their soul's salvation, "Rest of our
bones, and soul's delivery" (l 8).
From the third quatrain comes Donne's second perception about death,
painting death as the associate of all the evil in life by saying "Thou art
slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,/ And dost with poison, war,
and sickness dwell" (l 9-10).
"The poet [Donne] even notes that narcotics or wi.... |
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