Sonnet_10

Sonnet 10 Sonnet 10 by Donne is a Petrarcan sonnet because it has an octet and a sestet. The rhyme scheme of the poem is ABBAABBACDCDEE. In the poem, the speaker talks about Death and claims that Death should not feel too proud because it is not as “mighty” as many claim it to be. In actuality Death doesn’t kill anyone. The speaker explains that rest and sleep are all copies of Death; therefore, Death is just as pleasurable and needed as the above. In addition, Death is also subjugated to things like poison and war. Also, there are other things like magic and drugs that can make men sleep just as well as they would if they were dead and therefore there is no reason for Death to hold any sense of pride. Furthermore, people aren’t eternally dead because the next step is after life where they are immortals. The poem can be looked at in two ways. One by looking at the sarcastic tone of Donne death, poem, donne, because, things, step, next, life, just, trying, therefore, speaker, sonnet, sleep, should, people, looked, fulfilling, dead, afterlife, addition, actuality, while, ways, way, war, two, trust, treating, tone, throughout, through, thinks, talks, talking