Holy Sonnet 10 Journal Entries

I am writing this letter to you because of your poem Holy Sonnet 10. Your poem has made me rethink my opinions, and gain a completely new perspective on Death. When I first read your poem, I was confused by it’s meaning and began to do my own research on it. Later I discovered it’s true meaning, which shocked me, and thus I am writing a letter to you because of how it has changed me and what my reaction to it was. As you wrote in your poem, “Death be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so… Death nor yet canst thou kill me.” This quote shocked me! For the first time I had witnessed a person calling Death weak, and incapable of taking a life. After reading this portion of your poem again, and having a through thought about it, I thought about how Death affected me, and the people around …show more content…
After thinking this through, I could confidently say that this changed my perspective, it taught me to not fear Death as it was just a false concept that had been overrated for thousands of years, and that there is more to do in life rather than sulk on dying or fearing dying. Once again, as you wrote, “thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men.” To colloquially paraphrase what you were trying to say, I believe that you’re are calling Death a slave to man, and that Death serves you, not vice versa. This quote also inspired a change in my ideas, as we humans are known to be the servers of Death from old folklore, and we are known to be weak compared to that of such strong beings like Death, but by understanding this quote I believe that you’ve changed another one of my opinions on Death. You’ve changed my opinion so that I believe Death is just a worker for us all, and is the person who simply carries us to the next place in our lives. You’ve also shown me that we, the human race, are stronger than beings like Death who have been believed to