Donne treats death as a human, and tells him to not be proud because he is not scared as many other people. A theme is created while the author continues his poem until the end. He compares death as being sleeping, not a big deal , nothing to be worried about. Donne makes it a character through personification. “One short sleep past, we wake eternally”.
Faith plays a huge role here, because we know that for conviction we can go to heaven or hell after our short sleep. It makes the paradoxical statement that mortality is itself mortal. Can be something moral to the proper author about fighting death too. We can only accept death in our life’s as a natural process, where not even God could scape to later live eternally.
Death bring a lot of pleasures since those good souls whom death take from earth suffering experience and bring them up to rest on their bones. Donnes critize death for believing himself too much. Death is not but only slave of humans of their bodies; but a slave to Fate, chance, kings, and desperate men (line 9). Death is not connected specifically with a hierarchy. A desperate man can decide to go through dead way to end his suffer on earth (suicide). Dead at the end has no power at all because he didn’t decide for the person, the person decided to die, how and when too.
Death will die at the end. In religion when we sleep eternally , we wake up in heaven, I we were good during our life on earth. Death is itself destined to die. Dead one day will cease to exist. No meaning of being still trying to force something we know that at the end we knew since the beginning was impossible. At some point we all know we will die, but we don’t know how it will be, so we can’t just be scared of something we don’t know yet!