I never knew who John Donne was, and I had never read any of his poems up until this one. The words " Thou shalt never comprehendth thy words I speak... because I lived in the 1600's and speaking like that was a regular day thing for me." come to mind. All sarcasm aside, after picking the poem apart in class, I came to the conclusion that this John Donne guy is pretty cool; despite his use of of -th's and -st's. Defeating Death in a game of chess is quite the awesome feat ( Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey). However, completely reducing Death's power to the point where he is useless, is something that only the power of words can do.
Given my limited knowledge of being able to pick through the ancient script, I don't think I would have gotten very far in understanding the poem, without the opinions of my professor and the rest of the class. Once I did understand the poem, I could really appreciate what it really had to say. With all that said and done, I don't think I will attempt reading anymore of John Donnes poetry without an army of other poets behind me to read between the lines.
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