A Study of John Donne’s “Holy Sonnet 10” “Holy Sonnet 10”, expresses the likelihood that death is not the end of life, but only the beginning of an eternal awakening. Using personification and metaphors, Donne illustrates the irrelevance of death in one’s life as merely being a short transitional stage. By portraying death’s imaginary victory in ending a life, the author uses irony to reveal that death itself that dies. Death, be not proud, …showed first 75 words of 644 total…

…showed last 75 words of 644 total…men when they are too tired to live. Death should humble itself because it is only a small part of life. Eventually, when everyone has gone through her moment of death and rising to eternal life, "Death, thou shalt die". This last line is ironic in that death is not expected to die, rather take away life from others. However, in the end Death itself will be banished forever from the land of the living.