LIT/A/1: DEATH BE NOT PROUD    (JOHN DONNE (England))

This sonnet is about making death seem not-so-scary. Death has got the real attitude problem in a sense that he thinks he is the biggest, worst meanest dude in town. Everybody treats him like the king of the underworld. They think he has the power to do the terrible things. Donne and other metaphysical poets in general are masters of surprise ending and this one is no exception. In traditional Christian theology, it is thought that when people die it’s like they are asleep until the end of the world or the judgement day. The poem like most sonnets has centred on only one subject – death