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After reading all the poems which have been taught this week, I am very fond of the poem" Death, be not proud"  (sonnet10)

I don't think I have ever seen a poem like it before telling us not to be afraid of death; most of the poems are always trying to convey that how dreadful is the death and how we should  treasure every moment and not to waste our youth.  However, this sonnet of John Donne is trying to convey to us that death is nothing; it is not the ruler of lives, not the lord of living creature, instead, it is the slave of fate, chance, kings, and desperate men.

Another interesting point is that, death seems to be a midway path for us to the eternal life and glory(which is the heaven) once one has slept his peaceful sleep, there would be eternality waiting for him and there would be no more death. Death, thou shalt die.

This poem shall bring courage to those who are facing death now. I wish I could have this poem in mind when my moment comes.