![]() ![]() This is what Donne also possessed and it helped him in the long run. Writers tend to see the world in a different way than everyone else they are more insightful and introverted making them keen to details that others might not see. His creative insight allowed him to see God and Death through a lense that others in his age might not have been able to see had Donne not been a poet as well as a teacher of God's word. Donne was an amazing preacher for his time and he had a particular way of looking at God. The verse suggests that after the Great War and tribulation that takes place in Revelation, that death will be destroyed along with the last of sin and unholy mankind. "The last enemy to be destroyed is death" (Vance, 96). 1 Corinthians 15:26 states the main idea of the poem and allows the reader to take a deeper look into the scriptures and the poem itself. John Donne's "Death Be Not Proud" could be considered a Holy sonnet or, at least, a Christian poem that is centered on both satire and scripture. This analysis will ultimately take a deeper look into the beliefs of John Donne and link it to what he portrays in this poem and others that he has worked on in the past so that the readers might be able to understand how this affects us today. They believe that if we truly understand how Donne thought about Death, life, and heaven then we would truly begin to understand all of Donne's literary work. Critics have approached this poem in a similar way by stating Donne's beliefs about Death and the afterlife while comparing them to what Donne has stated in his sermons and previous poetry. Donne tells Death that he has no place in this world because God has already defeated him and in the end of all days, God will defeat him once again and this time, for good. The entire poem is basically just putting Death down and making sure that he understands his "place" outside of God's kingdom. This particular form of personification allows the speaker to talk down to Death as if he were a tangible being that is capable of feelings and emotions. In John Donne's "Death Be Not Proud" the author applies personification to Death but he also provides information about him that will change what we believe about Death, even in this day and age. ![]()
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