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John Donne “Death Be Not Proud”

John Donne “Death Be Not Proud”. Two types of sonnet Shakespearean sonnet Petrarchan sonnet How choices of form allow for different poetic effects How deviations from form can effect reader response The uses of personification.

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John Donne “Death Be Not Proud”

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  1. John Donne “Death Be Not Proud” Two types of sonnet Shakespearean sonnet Petrarchan sonnet How choices of form allow for different poetic effects How deviations from form can effect reader response The uses of personification Miniature of John Donne by Isaac Oliver, 1616. (The Royal Collection)

  2. PoetryCritical Analysis • Two key questions: • What does the poem seek to do? • How does the poem do what it does?

  3. How does the poem do what it does?

  4. Shakespearean or English Sonnet • Lyric poem in iambic pentameter • Rhyme scheme ababcdcdefefgg • 3 quatrains (4 lines of verse) and a concluding couplet http://www.starve.org/teaching/intro-poetry/welcome.html

  5. Sonnet 18: Form Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? aThou art more lovely and more temperate: b quatrainRough winds do shake the darling buds of May, aAnd summer's lease hath all too short a date: b Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, cAnd often is his gold complexion dimmed, d quatrainAnd every fair from fair sometime declines, cBy chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed: d But thy eternal summer shall not fade, eNor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st, f quatrainNor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade, eWhen in eternal lines to time thou grow'st, f So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, g couplet So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. g

  6. Petrachan or Italian Sonnet • Rhyme scheme (abbaabbacdecde) • (Octave and Sestet – relation between these crucial ) http://www.starve.org/teaching/intro-poetry/welcome.html

  7. Death, be not proud – Petrarchan or Shakespearean?? Death, be not proud, though some have called thee a Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so; b For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow b Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me. a From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, a Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow, b And soonest our best men with thee do go, b Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery. a Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, c And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, d And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well d And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then? c One short sleep past, we wake eternally a And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die. a octave sestet Rhyming couplet

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  9. Death, be not proud – Petrarchan or Shakespearean?? Death, be not proud, though some have called thee a Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so; b For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow b Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me. a From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, a Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow, b And soonest our best men with thee do go, b Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery. a Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, c And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, d And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well d And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then? c One short sleep past, we wake eternally a And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die. a octave sestet Rhyming Couplet Half-rhyme

  10. Design - Personification and argument • Design of the poem is based on an extended metaphor or conceit – the personification of Death • Death is addressed directly like a person • Donne uses the second-person singular (implied or stated as thou, thee, and thy).

  11. The Personification of Death in “Death be not Proud” Terry Pratchett’s Character Death John Donne’s Death Both based on the notion of the Grim Reaper Use of personification, irony and parody “Poor death” – the reader is urged to have some sympathy with the character of death addressed in the poem

  12. Meter and Rhythm Iambic pentameter From REST..|..and SLEEP,..|..which BUT..|..thy PIC..|..turesBE Much PLEA..|..sure; THEN..|..from THEE..|..much MORE..|..must FLOW, And SOON..|..estOUR..|..best MEN..|..with THEE..|..do GO Alliteration For those whom thou think'stthou dost overthrow Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell And better than thy stroke; why swell'stthou then One short sleep past, we wake eternally And death shall be no more; Death, thou shaltdie

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