("Death, be not proud", Donne)
Death is personified multiple times within this poem; it's described proud, a slave, and even a victim of death. This personification serves two purpose, the first being to exaggerate the role of death. The poem tries to decrease the effects of death and instead tries to focus on the life after death. This "short sleep" is rejected; it seems kinda like an awful ad between two excellent shows, pointless and thankfully short. The second motivation to personify death is to have a source to blame for the sadness and bitter feelings of death. Mr. Costello are you even reading this? The kings, war, desperate men, or sickness are not to blame; rather death is a pride-seeking being causes the negative imagery with death. The speaker calls for more pleasure from death, for even "our best men with thee will go". This poem desires a death of death; a world free of the fear and horror of dying.
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