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A Study of John Donne's "Holy

A Study of John Donne's "Holy Sonnet 10"

"Holy Sonnet 10", expresses the likelihood that death is not the end of life, but only the beginning of an eternal awakening. Using personification and metaphors, Donne illustrates the irrelevance of death in one's life as merely being a short transitional stage. By portraying death's imaginary victory in ending a life, the author uses irony to reveal that death itself that dies.

Death, be not proud, though some have called thee

Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;

For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow

Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,

Much pleasure; then from thee much more must low

And soonest our best men with thee do go,

Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.

Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,

And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell.


One short sleep past, we wake eternally

And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then ?

The narrator's paradoxical statement, "Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me", emphasizes his belief that one can actually die physically, but not spiritually. The author asks death why death is proud because the sleep it inflicts is merely as temporary as that of the effects of a drug. One should not fear something that causes sleep such as drugs: "And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well". The "poppy or charms" making a reference towards opium and drugs. Donne exposes that after death eternal life is the next step, which brings much pleasure, "From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be / Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow". Death is "slave" to "fate, chance, kings, and desperate men", as it does not control who dies. Eventually everyone mus

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