Analysis Of John Donne's Sonnet 10 And Meditation 17
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Sonnet 10, by John Donne
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 ....
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.... and poison are just a few. In the sixth stanza he says why
should people gloat about death if know man has control over death? Why
should you have pride about death? In the final stanza he says that our
lives are but a short sleep compared to the eternal live we have after we
awaken from that sleep. Once we die the soul is alive and death no longer
presides. We are brought into eternal life. Death can no longer take us
because it already has.
Meditation 17, by John Donne
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