John Donne's Poem " Death, Be not proud."

Holy Sonnets: - Death,  Be not proud.

                                  

                                      John Donne’s sonnets ( The Death not to be proud) deals with the theme of death .The poet in  this sonnet challenges authority of death and saying that there is no need for any human being to be afraid of death .Death is generally considered to be mightily and dangerous but In reality. It is neither mightily nor dangerous death things that when it goes to person, it throws away that person but in reality that person does not die. The poet tells death that it has no capacity even to kill him. According to the poet, the picture of death is nothing but sleep and rest .Sleep and rest generally give joy to a person since that is the function of death, pleasure should be derived from death.

                     The poet addressing to death mentions that even that best people sooner or later go with death. Why should than he be afraid of death? Death offers rest to humanboby and soul is a transferred to another boby.Death is a slave of fate; chance king and a man who is in distress .There are three residing places of death namely poisoned, War and Sickness.

                                            The death performance the same function which is performed by charms of mother .Mothers love causes sound sleep to a child  and in the same manner death also causes sleeps to a person .The sleep caused by mothers charms is sweet while sleep caused by death came’s like a stroke .Thre is no need for death to be proud after every sleep a person gets up death is also a sleep after which a person gets up for eternally if death is accepted in this manner, death no more remains death but it dies away.

                                The present sonnets of Donne conveys a message to mankind how death should be treated without considering it mightily or dangerous.