... "our best men" will embark on death's journey means that many people fear death as being the final chapter of their lives. The following line explains both the physical and spiritual need for death, since it provides "rest of their bones, and soul's delivery" (259); not only will death renew the body, but also the spirit, readying it for the glorious ... return of God and the afterlife. In the next two lines, "Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, / And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell" (259), Donne proposes the idea that death is not mighty, but indeed is a...

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