Imagine being in the school hallway and seeing your bully crashing into the lockers with a petrified look on his face. Once you have seen your own bully have your own personal bullies to fear every day, you can derive a level of great pleasure and satisfaction from it. Unfortunately, this doesn't change the fact that your bully will continue to torment you on a daily basis. John Donne uses these images to describe how he perceived Death. Death should not be taken lightly. In contrast, Death is not as harsh as one might perceive after all; death is rather weak, thus powerful and powerful, as it is just a much stronger version of sleep and constantly serves others like a slave. The poem “Death be not proud” opens with: “Death be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and terrible.” (Donne 1-2) Donne makes it clear that Death has no room to boast or be proud of who he is and that he should not be feared by anyone. The speaker is humiliating Death in the poem and appears cocky and confident. He faces Death with determination and shares his thoughts as if he were conversing with a real person. Many people fear only the thought of Death because they believe that Death is the end. However, Donne makes the speaker fearless because of his strong Christian beliefs. The speaker considers him an honest Christian and remains confident that he will get to heaven. Being such a devotee of Christianity, death is nothing but a passage to another “higher” life and there is no reason to fear it. The problem with faith is that it does not guarantee a first-class ticket to heaven, but the speaker knows that his faith is strong enough and is confident that God will not let him down. The... middle of paper... scary. Although one could argue that Death is powerful and terrible, and that Donne is using such vivid imagery to make Death seem like it is nothing to escape from other than to make Death more accepting in one's life. We cannot impose our faith on each other, but Donne makes it clear that faith will help us overcome Death and defeat it. Death is defeated by awakening to eternal life and this causes Death to end, making man win. He believes that one's faith is an eternal existence that makes Death meaningless. Throughout the poem, through the use of literate terms and vivid imagery, Death is hypothesized to be the entrance to eternal life. The last final words: "Death, you will die" (Donne 14), give the assumption that Death is dead and no longer exists. , as well as giving the idea that Death should be the one to fear, and not the one to fear.