DEATH be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not so,
For, those, whom thou think’st, thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleepe, which but thy pictures bee, 5
Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee doe goe,
Rest of their bones, and soules deliverie.
Thou art slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poyson, warre, and sicknesse dwell, 10
And poppie, or charmes can make us sleepe as well,
And better then thy stroake; why swell’st thou then;
One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.
Does anybody know any 5 literary devices in this poem:
like foreshadowing…i know that’s not one, just an example.
Alliteration: line 6 “much more must”
Personification: line 4, 14 “death, thou shalt die” “die not, poore death”
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Alliteration: line 6 “much more must”
Personification: line 4, 14 “death, thou shalt die” “die not, poore death”
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DID U GET THAT FROM THE ENGILSH SITE
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“dost with poyson”, “slave to fate”, “much more must flow”, “wee wake eternally”
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personification: death is not actually a person.
apostrophe (talking to somebody who is not a person): donne talks to Death (death isn’t a real person).
synecdoche (talking about a part when you mean the whole): ‘bones’ to mean ‘people’.
metaphor: thou art slave to Fate (death is not actually a slave).
metonymy: poppie or charmes (donne actually means ‘anaesthetics’).
rhetorical question: ‘why swell’st thou then’ (death isn’t actually shrugging off all donne’s objections, it just seems tobe).
oxymoron: ‘death, thou shalt die’ (death cannot die, obviously).
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