EN 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: John Donne, The Sun Rising, Christian Art
17 Nov 2016
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He is proud, arrogant, and thinks he can boss people around. When he walks down the street, people avert their eyes and leap into (cid:498)death(cid:499) thinks he is the biggest and the baddest alleyways to escape him. They think he has the might to do dreadful things. The speaker is not afraid mistaken in treating death as some fearsome being that people pass through on their way to a new, eternal life. The speaker almost certainly refers to people like soldiers and martyrs, who sacrifice themselves for the greater good. Therefore, death should gives us pleasure when we finally meet it. The speaker orders death not to be proud, and then says that people are. Death thinks that he has the power to kill people, but he actually does not. Donne uses the idea of christian eternity to argue that death is something. The speaker walks up to (cid:498)death(cid:499) and gives him a piece of his mind.
