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Thomas Hardy is recognized as a great poet; a great novelist; a story-teller of super excellence. Like Dickens he was a social chronicler of his times.
He studied architecture in King’s College, Cambridge and became the Topper in M.Tech.
Hardy wrote poems all through his life but got recognition as a poet only in the fag end of his life because the themes of most of his poems were far ahead of his time. He wrote more than one thousand poems. More than 1000 poems in eight volumes were published during his life time while many more got published posthumously.
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it includes understanding of humor and satire, in chaucer's work, including examples with reference to the canterbury tales, also critics views on satire and humor of chaucer.
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2. 1. Do you’ll think of death?
2. How often do you do so?
3. What are your views on death?
4. Are you afraid of death?
5. Have you prepared yourself to face death?
5. A sonnet is a poem that has:
1. fourteen lines
2. Petrarchan- octave (8 lines) and sestet(6 lines)
3. or Shakespearean ( 3 quatrains and a couplet)
Specific rhyme scheme
English – abab – cdcd- efef- gg
Italian – abba – abba – varies (cdecde, cdcdcd,cddcdd)
6. About the poem…
Sonnet
A sonnet is a fourteen-line poem in which the same idea runs throughout the
poem. In this sonnet, John Donne has combined the Shakespearian and
Petrarchan style The division of the sonnet reflects the Shakespearian structure,
whereas the rhyme scheme shows the structure of Petrarchan sonnet.
Rhyme Scheme
ABBA ABBA CDDC EE
Octave Sestet
7. Analysis
1.Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful
The speaker directly addresses and personifies
Death, telling it not to be arrogant just because
some people find death scary and intimidating.
8. Analysis
for thou art not so;
For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow
Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
In fact, death is neither of these things because people don’t
really die when death—whom the speaker pities—comes to
them; nor will the speaker truly die when death arrives for
him.
9. Analysis
From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,
Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow,
Comparing death to rest and sleep—which are like images of
death—the speaker anticipates death to be even more
pleasurable than these activities.
10. Analysis
And soonest our best men with thee do go,
Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.
Furthermore, it’s often the best people who go with
death—which represents nothing more than the
resting of the body and the arrival of the soul in the
afterlife.
11. Analysis
Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,
Death is fully controlled by fate and luck, and often
administered by rulers or people acting desperately. The
speaker points out that death is also associated with
poison, war, and illness.
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13. Analysis
And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well
And better than thy stroke;
Drugs and magic spells are more effective than death
when it comes to rest, so death has no special reason to
be proud as he isn’t particularly special.
14. Analysis
why swell'st thou then?
With all this in mind, what possible reason could death have
for being so puffed up with pride?
15. Analysis
One short sleep past, we wake eternally
Death is nothing but a mere sleep in between people’s
earthly lives and the eternal afterlife,
16. Analysis
And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
which death can visit them no more. It is instead death—or a
certain idea of death as something to be scared of—that is
going to die.
17. 1. Personification
Personification means to attribute human features to non-human things. Donne has personified death
throughout the poem, stating it should not be proud. Being proud is a human quality. Hence, death is
given a human quality of having feelings and emotions.
Deathbe not proud
Slave to fate
Why swell’st thou then?
Thoushalt die
18. 1. The first is used in the opening line “Death, be not proud.” Here
death is compared to a proud man.
2. The second is used in the ninth line, “Thou art slave to fate.”
3. In the last line is an extended metaphor where death is compared to
the non-existent or unrealistic object.
2. Metaphor
19. Alliteration is the repetition of the same consonant sounds in the same
lines of the poetry such as the use of :
/th/ in
“And better than thy stroke; why swell’st thou then”
“ for, those, whom thou think’st, thou dost overthrow.”
/m/ sound in
“Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow.”
2. Alliteration
20. Irony means a statement that may mean something different from,
or the opposite of, what is written. Irony often expresses something
other than their literal intention, often in a humorous way.
For example:
“Death, thou shalt die.”
4. Irony