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Sonnet 10, by John Donne The first stanza is saying that death is not proud even though some people call it that. He does not think that death is a proud thing. In the next stanza he is says that death is neither mighty nor dreadful. He also says that people w ....

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.... he says why should people gloat about death if know man has control over death? Why should you have pride about death? In the final stanza he says that our lives are but a short sleep compared to the eternal live we have after we awaken from that sleep. Once we die the soul is alive and death no longer presides. We are brought into eternal life. Death can no longer take us because it already has. Meditation 17, by John Donne The passage that I chose that best demonstrates the theme is, “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.” This passage says that no one is by themselves in this ....