In the dark ages of the
seventeenth century in England, John Donne wrote some
metaphysical poetry, including the famous quote: “Death, be not proud”.
His writing is about the
ideas of religious dogmas, and the belief that will challenge the philosophy of
death, and once afterlife.
He wanted to ridicule the thought of Christian
belief that life is a short story before eternal peace.
He personifies Death and
judges it with arrogance and pride because it can take peoples life away.
Having pride that people fear is a limitation to nature’s threshold of
doorways.
The ridicule of judgment
day is already the karmic force that puts the soul back into the sphere of the
living.
Death is not as powerful as
people would believe because it cannot truly end the spirit of people.
“Die not, poor Death, nor
yet canst thou kill me. From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, much
pleasure; then from thee much more must flow, And soonest our best men
with thee do go.”
John Donne has remorse for
Death just by comparing it to sleep and rest and declares that there can be no
physical end to life, when there is an eternal world.
He declares as well that
death like to be obedient to people who need to act in despair and make
themselves submissive to fortunes and power. Death is only relative to the
politics of war and its religion to please the ego. Heartless people who fear the most are stuck between
eternal afterlife and the real world and hold onto everything that keeps them
alive to kill and the knowledge of fears.
In the compassionate force
of life, death does not have a place in the eternal divine world, and therefore
no power.
“Death, be not proud,
though some have called thee, Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so; for
those whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow.
Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me”.
It is only death that dies,
because all worldly things cannot work alone, to survive eternity. Making Death
and pain only a slave and not a Master to function as doors to take souls to
where they are meant to be.
The eternal quest and the
source of the living God in all of us prove the reality of the afterlife, which
is eternal and the story of the poem. Death is not the end of life, but a life
into hereafter. Death is the rebirth and gift from God that gives our spirit an
immortal life. It is the ultimate freedom of souls and its virtues of free
will.
“Thou art slave to fate,
chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness
dwell, And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well And better than thy
stroke; why swell’st thou then? One short sleep past, we wake eternally. And
death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die”.
Immortals souls occupy mortal vessels and
Death only take humans from their mortal and temporary world to an immortal
status.
Fears are the manipulation
of the wicked and one has to resonate with courage that there is the
possibilities of creating a new life without any insecurities.
Looking at Death with grace
and courage is the music to face as it is only a temporary state that never
should control once life, then death has no power over humanity.
It is the dead who cause
death, the living force preserves life.
Fears and its manipulations
are evil and bring only success to the wicked, while in the meantime the
virtues of life wins victory for the righteous.
Morality is the flower
which reaches beyond the heart, for it springs out of the individuality to
love.
The wisdom of life is the
way in which to express once life as one has understood it oneself.
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