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John Donne And The Psychology Of Death
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The seventeenth-century poet John Donne has gone down in the history of popular culture for three lines: “No man is an island,” “Ask not for whom the bell tolls -- it tolls for thee”, and the opening of a poem called “Death be not proud”. This last came from a collection of Donne’s poems which cam ....
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....sibly one of the most famous in English literature. “Death be not proud,” it begins: “though some have called thee/ mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so” (Donne, 89). Here Donne is saying that Death, who thinks he is so tremendously powerful, is not, so he might as well stop preening himself. This is certainly a surprising opening to the poem, because we do think of Death as all-powerful, and in the end the one thing we life-loving beings most fear.
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