In order to fully understand "Holy Sonnet: Death, be not proud" we must look at the creator of the poem itself: John Donne. Here a few quick facts about the great English poet and about the time in which he wrote this sonnet. Enjoy!
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I hope you can find some consolation from Christianity's affirmation that death is not the end. Death is not a period that ends the great sentence of life, but a comma that punctuates it to more lofty significance. Death is not a blind alley that leads the human race into a state of nothingness, but an open door which leads man into life eternal.
-Martin Luther King Jr.
Holy Sonnets"Death, be not proud" is the tenth sonnet or "Sonnet X" in Donne's collection of poems entitled Holy Sonnets. Donne did not publish these poems himself. In fact, they were published two years after his death in 1633,
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Donne fell in love with Anne More and had12
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Don't be fooled, Donne did it all.Not was Donne a Dean at St.Paul's in London, he also served in Parliament for 13 years.
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