Death, Be not proud By John Donne Report by: Keren Escober, Antoinette Hampton, Wendy Meza, Lizbeth Sanchez, Karla Nolasco, and Dinnet Cruz

Biography John Donne (1572-1631) Father: John Donne Born in London Recusant Roman Catholic family 3rd of 6 children Father: John Donne Welsh decent and warden of the Ironmongers company in the city of London

Life High education and literary talents Spent inherited money on literature, pastimes, and travel 1601 secretly married a woman named Anne More 8th year of being a minister had major illness Close to typhoid fever Came close to death

Poet’s Career English Poet Religious Figure Pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets Best know for their strong sensual style and includes sonnets, love poetry, religious poems, Latin translation Characterized by abrupt openings and carious paradoxes, ironies, and dislocation. Religious Figure 1615 Anglican priest 1621 Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral Member of parliament in 1601 & 1614

Structure Elizabethan/Shakespearean sonnet form three quatrains and a concluding couplet Italian/Petrarchan sonnet Rhyme Scheme Different than usual Usual: ABBAABBA CDECDE or CDCDCD Meter: Iambic Pentameter Not followed completely Tone shift in line 9

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 flow, 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, And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then? One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die b a c d a

Death; be not proud, though some have called thee Personification 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 flow, 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, And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then? One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die Apostrophe Metaphor Pun Tone Shift Conceit Metonymy Rhetorical Question Extended Metaphor Paradox

Analysis You should not be proud even if some say you are Not mighty or dreadful You think can kill people You can’t anyone, in the end we live forever 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.

Rest and sleep are similar to death, dreams are like pictures of what after death will be like Death should be pleasurable Hardest working and bravest go first Enjoying death and going into a new eternal life From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure- then from thee much more must flow, And soonest our best men with thee do go, Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.

Manipulated by these factors Associated with drugs, war, and sickness The feeling that drugs and spells can give us the same death-like feeling Does death give people as similar feeling drugs do? Yes! Death should’nt swell with pride Thou'art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then?

One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die After the short death we feel, we are now in a better place than death or life on earth, we live eternal life Death will no longer exist in our lives, it won’t even be in our minds, thus it dies