https://padlet.com/amhenning18/iqkzsbd4wa01 http://go.galegroup.com/ps/retrieve.do?tabID=T001&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&searchResultsType=SingleTab&searchType=BasicSearchForm&currentPosition=10&docId=GALE%7CA168397184&docType=Article&sort=RELEVANCE&contentSegment=&prodId=GLS&contentSet=GALE%7CA168397184&searchId=R1&userGroupName=j243905&inPS=true en-us 2017-12-11 14:26:35 UTC 2018-01-25 01:09:26 UTC hello@padlet.com amhenning18 https://padlet.com/amhenning18/iqkzsbd4wa01/wish/215417080 "'Death be not proud' forms part of a short sequence in John Donne's Holy Sonnets on the subject of death and divine judgement. The sequence is designed to deepen religious fear and prepare the reader for poems intended to renew and reawaken religious love. "]]> 2017-12-12 14:19:15 UTC https://padlet.com/amhenning18/iqkzsbd4wa01/wish/215417080 amhenning18 https://padlet.com/amhenning18/iqkzsbd4wa01/wish/215417379 The whole sequence of the holy sonnets is based on  St Ignatius Loyola's spiritual exercises,  a sixteenth-century Spanish priest. He reflects the pattern of the exercises in many of his holy sonnets, excluding this one. ]]> 2017-12-12 14:19:52 UTC https://padlet.com/amhenning18/iqkzsbd4wa01/wish/215417379 amhenning18 https://padlet.com/amhenning18/iqkzsbd4wa01/wish/215418433 The poem is far from seeking the help of God to face his fears of death, but he beats death through human traits.]]> 2017-12-12 14:21:53 UTC https://padlet.com/amhenning18/iqkzsbd4wa01/wish/215418433 amhenning18 https://padlet.com/amhenning18/iqkzsbd4wa01/wish/215419746 The speaker in the poem minimizes the power of death, but also makes death a good thing as it leads to a Christian's eternity in the after life in Heaven.]]> 2017-12-12 14:24:23 UTC https://padlet.com/amhenning18/iqkzsbd4wa01/wish/215419746 amhenning18 https://padlet.com/amhenning18/iqkzsbd4wa01/wish/217057674 The speaker uses personification to make death a person that is not so high and "mighty" as many do think.]]> 2017-12-18 18:32:33 UTC https://padlet.com/amhenning18/iqkzsbd4wa01/wish/217057674 amhenning18 https://padlet.com/amhenning18/iqkzsbd4wa01/wish/217059304 The conceit of sleep and resting is referred to "pictures" of death, instances where "pleasure" may come from because death is only a long version of these things.]]> 2017-12-18 18:36:39 UTC https://padlet.com/amhenning18/iqkzsbd4wa01/wish/217059304 amhenning18 https://padlet.com/amhenning18/iqkzsbd4wa01/wish/217059898 The speaker asks, "And better than thy stroke; why swell’st thou then?" as a rhetorical question to make Death realize that it should not be so proud.]]> 2017-12-18 18:38:05 UTC https://padlet.com/amhenning18/iqkzsbd4wa01/wish/217059898 amhenning18 https://padlet.com/amhenning18/iqkzsbd4wa01/wish/217061224 To the "best men," death is only great rest for tired "bones," but if one needs good sleep, they can just take "poppies" or "charms," drugs or potions. ]]> 2017-12-18 18:41:12 UTC https://padlet.com/amhenning18/iqkzsbd4wa01/wish/217061224 amhenning18 https://padlet.com/amhenning18/iqkzsbd4wa01/wish/217065439 When the speaker awakes from the short sleep, they will be in Heaven, the great aspect of death.]]> 2017-12-18 18:51:28 UTC https://padlet.com/amhenning18/iqkzsbd4wa01/wish/217065439 amhenning18 https://padlet.com/amhenning18/iqkzsbd4wa01/wish/217065755 "Poison, war, and sickness" are tormenters of death and although he is powerful, these are ever controlling of him and "fate" also being a master of his power.]]> 2017-12-18 18:52:15 UTC https://padlet.com/amhenning18/iqkzsbd4wa01/wish/217065755 amhenning18 https://padlet.com/amhenning18/iqkzsbd4wa01/wish/217067333 "In 'Death be not proud' it is Christ, not a lover, whom the poet hopes to 'wake eternally'. But his real focus is trying to out-argue death. It is as if his salvation depends on winning the same kind of verbal victory over death that he wins over time in 'The Sun Rising.'"]]> 2017-12-18 18:55:51 UTC https://padlet.com/amhenning18/iqkzsbd4wa01/wish/217067333 amhenning18 https://padlet.com/amhenning18/iqkzsbd4wa01/wish/217067974 "But this kind of showy metaphorical ingenuity is out of place in the divine poems. Death is no laughing matter and the largely playful argument of the secular poems here acquires an unmistakably personal edge. If the poet is again trying to wrestle death to the ground it is because, this time, he is afraid of it." ]]> 2017-12-18 18:56:49 UTC https://padlet.com/amhenning18/iqkzsbd4wa01/wish/217067974 amhenning18 https://padlet.com/amhenning18/iqkzsbd4wa01/wish/217070551  "In the second quatrain he argues that, since death is merely a supremely restful sleep, we should look forward to it. By the third quatrain he has decided that he will not pay death even that compliment because 'poppy, or charms can make us sleep as well/And better than thy stroke'."]]> 2017-12-18 19:04:10 UTC https://padlet.com/amhenning18/iqkzsbd4wa01/wish/217070551 amhenning18 https://padlet.com/amhenning18/iqkzsbd4wa01/wish/217070653 "'Death be not proud' shows that the mysteries of religious love will not be conjured with words."]]> 2017-12-18 19:04:30 UTC https://padlet.com/amhenning18/iqkzsbd4wa01/wish/217070653