Death, Be not proud. By John Donne.

Death, Be not  proud.
By John Donne.

          John Donne is equally known for his holy sonnets deal with serious theme and issue related to human existence, the present sonnets of John Donne deals with the theme of Death. Generally every human being is afraid of death but the poet here presance the picture of death in altogether different way the attempt to the poem is to reduce fear of death and to convince the readers that death is a normal incident of life just like any other incident in life.

          The sonnet poem with the poets address to death that there is no need for death to be proud. Some considers death powerful and mighty dangerous but the poet considers it can not kill him. truly speaking those people do not die whom death things that it has killed. The poet believes that the picture of death is nothing but rest and sleep. If death provides rest and sleep, pleasure is to be derived out of it.

          the poet opinions that one need not be afraid of death because even the best of people have sooner or later died. Poet death is nothing except rest to body and soul going to a new body the poet considers death slave of fate, chance. kings and desperate man the meaning is a person dies only when fate decides or chance decided or chance decide is death.sometimes a person dies only when king decided his death as a punishment sometimes death has to come when a man in distress invites death suicide. The poet mention that there are three places where death lives in poison, war and illness. In other words death comes to an individual because of such reasons the poet does a comparison between sleep called by death and caused by charms of  mother he believes that sleep calls by mothers charms his more enjoyable than the sleep called by death because it comes like a sudden stroke there is no need for death be proud because death is just a small sleep and after sleep a person gets new form new life, to live for a long time. The poet concludes this sonnet with a statement that death will be no more, death it self will die.