... ; why swell'st thou then?" (259) Donne is convinced that both death and sleep are the same type of action, and as a result, he makes no distinction between them. Donne notes that drugs alike have the power of producing death. The final two lines of the poem, "One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And death shall be no more; Death ... died before him. This obsession was clearly shown in this poem, "Death be not proud". Donne expresses his ideas on death, speaking to it directly in a powerful monologue. He is quick to announce that he does not fear death as others do. He goes on to expl...

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... slipped my copy of this poem into the breast pocket of his blue suit. He would have liked that. "One short sleep past" and he wakes eternally. This here is a quick and rough explication. I fought long and hard against writing it, but finally got exhausted by the sheer number and frequency of emails by person in varying heights of panic and ... such a "tough nut to crack". Regardless, here it is. If you choose to use any of it, make sure to quote properly, and to give credit in your footnotes, end notes, or "Works Cited". Otherwise your professor may consider you guilty of plagiarism, ac...

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