Analysis of John Donne's Sonnet 10 and Meditation 17 The first stanza is saying that death is not proud even though some people call it that. He does not think that death is a proud thing. In the next stanza he is says that death is neither mighty nor dreadful. He also says that people who think that death is something to brag about are kidding themselves. Everyone must face it so why should it be seen as something to gloat about or something that is dreadful. Everyone must face it, death is not something that is cast upon curtain people. In the third stanza he says that when we die, we