1. Name :- Aamena Rangwala
Subject: -Literature of the Elizabethan and
Restoration Period
Roll no: -1
Enrollment no:- 4069206420210028
Email id:-aamenarangwala51@gmail.com
Batch:- 2021-23(M.A) Sem 1
Submitted to:- Department of English
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar
University
Topic:- Death, not to be Proud of
3. BIOGRAPHY OF JOHN DONNE • John Donne was an English poet,
scholar, soldier and secretary born
on 22 January 1572, London, United
Kingdom into a Roman Catholic
Family.
• John Donne was a leading English
poet of the Metaphysical school and
dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral,
London.
• Died on 31 March 1631, London,
United Kingdom.
4. ABOUT POEM DEATH ,NOT TO BE PROUD OF
This poem is a part of the Holy Sonnets, which is a series of 19 poems written by
Donne that center on his religious beliefs and ideals. This poem follows the
structure of a Petrarchan sonnet, which has 14 lines divided into an 8-line stanza
and a 6-line stanza.
6. HOW IS DEATH, BE NOT PROUD A METAPHYSICAL POEM?
"DEATH, BE NOT PROUD" IS PRIMARILY A METAPHYSICAL
POEM BECAUSE IT DEEPLY THINKS ON THE RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN THE BODY AND SOUL AND ASSERTS(DECLARE)
THAT DEATH IS DEFEATED IN AFTERLIFE (THE LIFE AFTER
DEATH).
7. ANALYSIS
• REST and Death are like painting of an object that gives us
‘pleasure’.
• Death is the real object so it gives us ‘Moral Pleasure ‘.
• Comparison of Death to Sleep means means Eternal Rest.
8. ANALYSIS
• He treats death as person .
• People are mistaken in treating death as some fearsome being.
• Death thinks that he has the power to kill people but he
actually doesn’t.
• Speaker starts to show his pity by addressing ‘Poor Death ‘.
But it seems ridiculous to say that Death doesn’t kill people.
9. ANALYSIS
• Death doesn’t decide when people will die he just carries out order of fate.
• Death is not something weak it’s ‘Pleasurable ‘.
• With these final lines of Death, be not Proud, the speaker reveals Although it is obvious
that Death is real, and that people who experience Death do not come back to earth,
the speaker reveals his reasons for claiming that Death is weak and easily overcome. He
claims that Death is only “one short sleep” and that those who experience Death “wake
eternally”.
• The speaker has not only told Death that he has no real power over anyone, but that he
will experience the end of himself when all wake in eternity and death will be no more.
10. Conclusion
Therefore, this should not be
the picture we have of death.
We should think of death as triumph
(Great Victory) over death itself.
