1. Renaissance Literature
❖ Name:- Virani Dhara R.
❖ Sem:- 1 M.A. (English)
❖ Roll no:- 06
❖ Subject :- Renaissance Literature
❖ Topic :- Death be not poud
❖ Email id :- dharavirani601@gmail.com
❖ Submitted to :- Department of English (M.K.B.U.)
❖ Year :- 2019- 2021
2. Death Be Not Proud
❖ “Death Be Not Proud” is a very
popular holy sonnet by
Metaphysical poet “JOHN
DONNE”, written around 1610
and first published
posthumously in 1633.
❖ It is the tenth sonnet in
Donne’s posthumously
published “ Holy sonnets”.
3. John Donne
❖ John Donne (1572-1631) was
an English poet, priest, lawyer.
❖ Subject :- Love, Sexuality,
Religion, death.
❖ Famous poems
❖ The Flea
❖ The Sun Rising
❖ The Good-Morrow
4. Theme of this poem :-
❖ Mortality
❖ Dreams
❖ Hopes
❖ Plans
❖ Religion
❖ Courage
5. About This Poem :-
❖ John Donne’s view on this ultimate reality called
“Death”
❖ Here in this poem poet address to death saying that
there is no need for death to Be pound though
some people call it very powerful and dangerous, it
is neither powerful nor dangerous.
❖ According to John Donne, picture of death is
nothing than sleep and rest.
6. Three Places Where Death Lives
Forever
❖ According to Donne, Death lives in
these three places forever, this
places are like a home for death
where death lives.
❖ War
❖ Poisson
❖ Sickness
7. Death as a SLAVE
❖ John Donne says that Death is
nothing but merely a slave of
this four things.
1. Faith
2. Chance
3. Kings
4. Desperate
8. Theory of “Rebirth”
❖ The present sonnet of John
Donne, confirms Donne's
belief in the theory of
“Rebirth” when he talks
about waking up eternally
after a small sleep, it is
nothing but his belief in
rebirth.
