John Donne And William Shakespeare
Both John Donne and William Shakespeare view death with their opinions and we can see the differences straight from their poem. First of all, in John Donne¡¯s Holy Sonnet 10, he says that death is death and that death will never go away unless everything is dead. Donne, the Poet is pocking at death. Death itself dies when we wake in God's arms, in heaven. "Though some have called thee / Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so" (line1 1-2). This shows how the speaker addresses death as a person and talks to it like he¡¯s not being afraid. Later he tells that Death likes to think of himself as powerful and terrifying, but to the Poet this is not true at all. In "those whom you think'st thou dost overthrow / Die not, poor Death." these lines Donne somehow feel pity for Death, because to the Poet people do die, and yet their memories still do remain. Their presence does not actually disappeared.
In this two line ¡° One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no......
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