“Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art no so?” (John Donne. Holy Sonnets 1-2). “Holy Sonnets” starts with the Donne talking about death, who he treats as a person. He tells Death not be proud, because it’s not scary as people think. After Donne published his sexual love and religion poems, he became one of the greatest metaphysical poets. Although Donne’s writing reflected his fear of unexpected death, John enjoyed literature, Being raised by a Roman Catholic family impacted Donne’s life, he had a personal relationship with religion which made him passionate to write poetry. He was a with, poet and a preacher, who mostly wrote about sexual and religion in such work as the poems “Holy Sonnets”. John …show more content…
Ever since his wife died, Donne became obsessed with the idea of death. Donne started to study theology, law, and anti-Catholic poems, also love lyrics and religious poetry. He wrote a poem called Holy Sonnet 17, “Since she whom I loved hath paid her last debt/to nature, and to hers, my God is dead.” He wrote this poem when his beloved wife died.
In 1623, John Donne started to feel seriously ill with fever. During his sickness, he started to think about his physical and spiritual illness. He went as far as composing his own funeral sermon “Death Duel” before he died. Donne devoted himself whole-hearted to religion and theology. He became a very successful man and a high sermonist. The last thing donne wrote just before his death was “Hymne to God, In my sickness.” (John Donne. Pg1). Donne’s monument can still be seen today at the church St.Paul’s. John Donne died on March 31,
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They continued to read his literature with passion, dramatic complex states of mind, and the ability to make words have poetic meaning. Donne also wrote songs, sonnets and love poems. John Donne perhaps was the most smartest English poet. The reputation of John Donne is the most remarkable of any big writer in English, His literature was highly prized among admires, which later in life he gained fame as a preacher. His poetry was written for nearly four hundred years, it expresses a variety of experiences that are often unlike each other, In Donne’s midlife years, he darkened into a foreboding of imminent run. (Poetry Foundation. Pg