Theory and Practice in Language Studies, Vol 1, No 7 (2011), 861-864, Jul 2011
doi:10.4304/tpls.1.7.861-864

Death Image in Divine Meditations of John Donne

Dini Zhang, Dingming Wang

Abstract


As an important topic, different people hold different opinions and attitudes towards death according to their world views and believes. In his Divine Meditations, John Donne discusses death with others topics. In this sequence, death appears in different aspects. With different description of death, Donne tries to find a solution to conquer and defeat death. Quite different from the popular opinion in Renaissance, the poetry can immortalize a person; he holds a Christian’s belief that through the firm belief of God, man can defeat death.


Keywords


John Donne; death; divine meditations; holy sonnets

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