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Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;

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“Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;”

John Donne

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Donne personifies Death only to deny its final authority, building a Christian devotional argument that mortality does not have the last word.

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Holy Sonnet 10, posthumously printed in 1633 and represented by Wikisource. The poem’s defiance of death rests on explicitly Christian claims about resurrection and eternal life; it is devotional poetry, not factual evidence about death.

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