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Essay Galaxy - The Personification and Criticism of Death in John Donne's "Death Be Not Proud."
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 death against death
itself.
Donne's personification of death begins in line two where he says
that some people have called death "Mighty and dreadful"(l 2). The quality
of being powerful and the ability to cause great fear, basic definitions
taken from Random House's 1962 The American College Dictionary, are
undeniably human traits and Donne ....
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