The Gentle Giant

Death is one Crazy Mo Fo

"Death be Not Proud" by John Donne is a poem that I really enjoyed to read. The poem speaks in the first person and says "Hey! I am slapping you right in the face Death!" I really like how Donne makes death seem small and weak. Toward the end of the poem, he shows how death is nothing but a "slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men..." This poem is 14 lines of a brutal putdown of death. Donne gives a certain feeling that he is superior to Death, and that Death can not have an effect on him. I also really like how he tells death that it is his turn to die. One more thing I like about this poem is that it leaves a sense of optimism about death. I do not like or enjoy poetry that much, but this is a poem that I would read more than once. This is a well known poem, and now I can definitely see why.