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The Personification and Criticism of Death in John Donne's "Death Be Not
Proud."
"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 ways, as rescuer and as punisher of even the most noble.
Using these personifications, Donne turns the sting of d ....
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.... of death. He
questions death that if sleep or rest is a pleasure of life, then what
greater pleasure can death bring? "Much pleasure, then from thee much
pleasure must flow" (l 6). Donne also gives death credit that 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 a ....
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