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CSSC – SOUTHERN HIGHLAND ZONE, FORM FOUR JOINT PRE- NATIONAL EXAMINATION 2025
Read the following poem then answer the following questions bellow
“DEATH BE NOT PROUD” (John Donne)
Death be not proud, though some have called thee
Might 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.
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,
Rest of their bones and soul’s delivery.
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.
Questions
i. What type of the poem is this? How did you know?
ii. In what sense is the “sleep of death a short sleep” (line 13)?
iii. Who is speaking in the poem? How do you know?
iv. Comment on the following figures of speech from the poem;
a. Personification.
b. Apostrophe
c. Synecdoche.
v. Comment on the rhyming scheme.
vi. Is the poem relevance with your today’s society?
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