To some poets death is the beginning of new life, but to others death is a finality, discuss these aspects with the close reference to the works of two or more poets.

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        JINESH ADATIA

To some poets death is the beginning of new life, but to others death is a finality, discuss these aspects with the close reference to the works of two or more poets.

The poets I will be talking about in this assignment are going to be John Donne, Dylan Thomas, James Shirley and Francis Beaumont. These are the poets that wrote on death and I will be comparing the differences and similarities of their poems, and what they wrote about death.

John Donne was born in 1572 in London to wealthy parents. He was raised as a Roman Catholic, which was unusual because England was almost totally Protestant at the time. He was educated at Oxford, Cambridge, and Lincoln's Inn, where he studied law. The clergyman John Donne was one of the most gifted poets in English literature. He was converted to the Church of England and he became an Anglican clergyman in 1615. He died in 1631 at the age of 59. His transformation from Catholicism had a great effect on his life and influenced his poetry.

Dylan Thomas was born in Swansea, Wales, on October 27th 1914. He died in New York City on November 9th 1953, and was buried at Laugharne; the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas was only 39 years old when he died.

James Shirley was born in 1596 and was an English dramatist, born in London. As an Anglican, he was converted to Roman Catholicism and abandoned what might have been a career in the church for school teaching at St. Albans Grammar School, in Hertfordshire. He died in 1666 at the age of 70.

Francis Beaumont Leicestershire, in 1584. Francis Beaumont died suddenly of a fever in 1616 at the age of only 32 and was mourned by many. Francis Beaumont was buried in Westminster Abbey.

These are the backgrounds of the poets I am going to be talking about; as you are able to see a few of them also wrote plays and books. I am going to see what they all think of death in their poems and the similarities between all of them and the differences.

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John Donne’s poem, called DEATH. The basic outline is John Donne saying death I am not afraid of you because you cannot kill me, I will reincarnate so I will always live. In the first line he is saying death do not be proud of what you are doing, everyone thinks you are mighty and dreadful but I know you are not.

“Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so:”

Then he explains death you cannot kill me I am not afraid of you, if you kill me I will come back.

“Die not, poor ...

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