Critically comment on Donne’s argument against death in the sonnet ‘Death, Be Not Proud’.

Let us comprehend the meaning and message of this sonnet step by step. Note, for instance, that this sonnet has opened with the poet directly addressing death. Donne talks in the first person and initiates a conversation with the figure. This sonnet fits in with other sonnets of the period that were poems in the conversational mode. Here, the writer's choice of subject might appear conventional—death as much as love was a stock theme of the sonnets in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. For us in this unit, it is the treatment of the subject that makes the poem different, Donne bemg the shaping influence of the dialogue held between the poet persona and Death. Interestingly, the poet does not speak of the power of death or its mevitability. Indeed, he admonishes death for being too proud and suggests that for him death doem't hold sway over the world nor can it overpower him individually. Note his tone in “Death be not proud though some have called thee ‘Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so”. ____ ________ ___ _____ ___.
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