LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 12 : 1 January 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.

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The Portrayal of Death in
Donne’s “Death Be Not Proud” and
Jaroslav Seifert’s “The Mistress of the Poets” -
A Comparative Study

Bibhudutt Dash, Ph.D.

John Donne

Death – A Perennial Subject

This paper compares the differences in the approaches to death between John Donne’s sonnet “Death Be Not Proud” and the Czech poet Jaroslav Seifert’s “The Mistress of the Poets,” and highlights the notes of defiance and glorification in the poems respectively. Whereas Donne challenges the might of death and admonishes it not to be proud, Seifert imbues death with such glorifications as “the lady of all pains,” “the lute of lamentations,” “the mistress of the poets,” “the empress of all killing,” “the younger sister of decay,” and “an instant, a scratching of the pen.” Death, a perennial subject in literature, is a dread for many. However, people’s attitudes toward it vary. The poems in question necessitate a re-examination of our attitudes in the chiaroscuro of mortality and immortality.

Jaroslav Seifert

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Bibhudutt Dash, Ph.D.
Lecturer in English
Department of English
SCS College
Puri
Odisha
India
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