... than now. Many writers who struggled with the thought of a rather early death often wrote about their feelings on the subject. In "Meditation 17", John Donne offers his thoughts on death. He presents his thoughts with the use of an extended metaphor, which compares humanity to a book in which each ... He compares the church to a human body. The church is connected to its members, just as the body is to all of its parts. Another example Donne uses is the process of a person's death, judgment, and admittance into heaven. He compares this process to the translation of a chapter in a book, ....

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... loss. Losing strength, burning out, losing physical and mental vigor, and the loss of life. Compared to John Donne's Death, be not proud this piece is a more depressing image of death. Donne causes death to appear something insignificant to what happens after it is experienced. For Donne, death is a small step towards eternal life, life that will never really be taken away. Shakespeare makes ... death seem more final than Donne's willingness to see past the fear and sadness that death has instilled in so many people's minds and think of it as something almost pleasurable. While both wer...

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