Death, Be not Proud

Introduction :

        The  Term  Metaphysical as applied  to English and Continental European Poets of the seventeenth  century .whose poetry comes to be known as the Metaphysical Poetry . it was Dr. Johnson  who while  writing on the life of Abraham Cowley in his Book ‘ The Lives’ Commented extensively on the poetry  of Donne and his Followers, calling at Metaphysical  Poetry ,and the Metaphysical poets Continue to be studied and revered for their intricacy and originality.

Metaphysical Poetry of john Donne

§  Death, Be not Proud

§  Sweetest Love, I do not go

§  The Dream

§  The  Ecstasy

§  The flea

Death , Be not Proud

In this poem , poet addresses the death . saying that there is no need for death to be proud through  some people call it very powerful nor dangerous . it neither powerful nor dangerous. Death believes that even throws those people do not die at all . Death has no capacity to kill poet . This how Donne challenges the death , the picture of death is nothing but sleep and rest.

“Die not , poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me from rest and sleep, which but thy picture.”

Donne  considered his  sonnet  saying that death need not become Proud. This life is a sleep in the sense that it is full of illusion but death liberate  us from that illusion and we wake up forever. Donne believes that if death is accepted with this spirit  there is no any death itself die.