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This 3 page paper discusses the views of death by three poets: Donne, Thomas, and Davis. Each analyzed for themes and mesages about death, use of symbolism, personification, metaphor. Quotes cited from text. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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renders his own interpretation of death, its impact on a person, and what one may expect in the afterlife. Three poets, John Donne, Dylan Thomas, and Catherine Davis each approach
death from varying angles and the attitude and concept toward death changes with each poet, even as each poet is from the next generation. John Donne, who lived in the
seventeenth century conceptualized Death as a mortal enemy. Given that John Donne was also a minister, it is easy to see where his theology sees Death as, not the end,
but the beginning of a lifetime in eternity. "Death be not proud" are the first lines of this title poem. It is easy to see that the narrator is telling
Death that it need not be cocky or proud of having claimed a person, because the body is not the part which makes a person who they are. It is
the soul. Given that, then, he states at the end of the poem: "One short sleep past, we wake eternally / And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt
die"(Donne 812). In this poem, then, the literary devices used include personification, sonnet form, and irony. Irony is most evident when the poet pities Death. This is ironical because most
people pity the dead, not Death itself. In the end Donnes message is that there is little reason to fear death and that in the end death only touches the
body, not the spirit. In the end, then, ones spirit wins over death. Dylan Thomas also bullies Death and views Death in an adversarial role. The background to this
poem is that Thomass father has died and he has had to come to terms with watching his father, who by all accounts had been a stern, strong military man,
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