My presentation topic is Renaissance literature, Death be not proud...

1.  Name : Asha dodiya
 Semester : 1
 Class : M.A Part 1
Enrollment no : PG15101012
 Paper : 1 The Renaissance Literature
 Work : Presentation
 Email id : ashadodiya15@gmail.com
 Submitted by : Smt S. B Gardi.Maharaja
Knshuakumarsihiy Bhavnagar University Department
of English

2. Death Be Not proud By John Donne
John Donne
 Born: between 24 January and
19 June ,1572.
 Birth Place: London ,England
.
 Died :31 march 1631 London
,England .
 Occupation : poet, Priest, etc
 Nationality : English .
 Genres : Satire Love Poetry
elegy .
 Subjects : love Sexuality
Religion, death.

5. Poem :- Death Be Not Proud
 Death be not proud though some have called thee Mighty
and dreadful for thou art not so, for those, when thou
thinks' thou dost overthrow, die not pores death nor yet
canst thou kill me.
 From rest and sleeps which but thy pictures bee ,much
pleasure then from thee much more must flow. And
soonest our best men with thee doe goe,Rest of their bones,
and souls deliveries.
 Thou art slave to fate chance kings and desperate men and
dost with poison were and sickness dwell , and poppies or
charmers can make us sleeps as well and better then thy
stroake.

6. Why swell’s thou then; one
short sleeps past wee wake
eternally, and death shall be no
more; death thou shall die.

7. Themes of this poem
.
• Mortality
• Dreams
.
• Hopes
• Plans
.
• Religion
• Courage

8. About this poem :-
 John Donne’s view on this ultimate reality called –
death
 Here in this poem poet address to death saying that
there is no need for death to Be proud though some
people call it very powerful and dangerous ,it is neither
powerful nor dangerous.
 According to John Donne Picture of death is nothing
but sleep and rest.

9. Death as a slave
 John Donne says that Death is nothing but Merely
a slave of this Four things .
1. Faith
2. Chance
3. kings
4. Distress in life

11. Three places where death lives
Forever :-
 In this poem john Donne says that death lives in
these three places forever this places are like a home
for death where death lives.
War
Poisson
sickness

12. Conclusion
 John Donne Concludes his sonnet saying that death
need not became proud ; this life is one sleep in a
sense that it is full of illusion but death librates us
from that illusion and we wake up forever,