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Discuss the paradox in the last two lines of John Donne's sonnet "Death be not proud".

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In the poem, John Donne personifies death and addresses this “person,” using the poetic device called “apostrophe.” Donne throughout contrasts the mortal person and the immortal soul, using several paradoxes before arriving at the final one. He says to him that the people Death thinks he kills, he really does not; even more, Death cannot kill the speaker. Donne was a devout Catholic who later converted to Anglicanism and became an Anglican priest.

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