邓恩 圣十四行诗之10

Pitying death
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 ?
Death believes that he is defeating men when he takes them, that 死神，你莫骄横，尽管有人将你看得 Donneconquering, “poor Death”, who is soInstead,to think himself a bane is, is mocking ruining, 如何强大，如何可怖，你呀，名不符实； causing to fall. silly as he does not cause 你自以为已经把芸芸众生毁灭， them on man's helps themis personified. is the is sayingkill me", In the fall, stanza, Death to again, "nor yet canst thou （祸根）to first but existence. Andrise—deathDonne means by which turns back toDeath tends to regard himself eternal lifebut brings new and immortal that the same idea that 可怜的死神，他们没死．你至今还杀不死我； Death does powerful and man finds Resurrection（复活）, asnot kill, and immortality life.throughcannot killheaven. people have called him that. terrifying,Christ in him, thus he holds no power over him. Death and indeed some But Death has nothing to be proud, which is explained in the next lines.
Conquering death
One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more ; Death, thou shall die.
人们小憩一会，精神便得以永远清朗， 便再不会有死亡，死神你自己将死亡。
Thus, “one short sleep past”, death has been are dead in anot Here now the personified that is, after we shown to be transient The final announcement, “Death, is, thou will die” up resurrected to moment, “we wake eternally”, a mere weshall wakecompletes the we “mighty and dreadful” ,but that mortal, or rather less than idea that death is the oneor dieshould be afraid, notwill cease to who again. Then, death the one to be eternal life, never to sleep an eternal death at the resurrection, mortals, since he will die feared. exist altogether and will die. enjoy eternal life. whereas we mortals will
This is why, Donne from the best men of the era also reminds Theythe image of death. Thus,human body much pleasure out ofus ofe if man gets (which go unhesitatingly to "shuffledeaths—they have wisely realized thisfrom the fear of death, theirand sleep, which arein Hamlet), freed to be the case. rest off this mortal coil" but images of death, then how much delivered into heaven, be gotten fromin the sense of being reborn. more pleasure must and delivered death?
你是命运、时机、君主和狂徒的奴隶， Going back to the death pictures, 你与毒药、战争和病魔同流合污， Donne notes that drugs alike 鸦片与巫术也能灵验地进行蛊惑， have theDonne compares Death to a cleaner who cleans up Next, power of producing sleep, and in fact, create a truer 而且效果更佳，你又何必颐指气使？
休憩和睡眠，其实就是你的写照， 你定然比它们更让人感到舒适惬意， 而我们最出色的人们随你而去越早， They go with death: their flesh life越能早日让灵魂获救，肉体安息. The second quatrain reminds usends, but their spiritual life starts. of Renaissance idea of sleep
Personal Understanding of Death
It is really heartbroken to see those we love disappear from our world. We do not have supernatural power to stop the footstep of death. Death is a natural process and should be treated as such. Life is beautiful because of death. As Tagore泰戈尔 has said, let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves(使生 如夏花之绚烂，死如秋叶之静美). Let us cherish every day and cherish those around us.
Holy Sonnet 10
John Donne
Death
Holy Sonnet 10
• Analysis • Evaluation • Personal Understanding of Death
Mocking death
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.
Evaluation
Death is personified as someone not worthy of awe or terror but of contempt. His way of reasoning is unique with scrupulous critical thinking. From mocking death, teasing death to pitying death, he proves his conviction that death will die himself.
Teasing death
From rest and sleep, which but thy picture 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.
The personified war, Donne not always raged. Howself-image where poison, Death death„s omnipotent (全能的) proud sleepthe third quatrainand sickness have have the power to In than death. Thus, does furthers the idea that Death is ischoosebelittledtoindeed is a and chance"Fate,suddenly kings, again position and shown as falsewith may chance, take is his who is now? not mighty, but die—Fate slave, conceit, and the insult is delivered home with “why swell'st doomthen?” Since this is the someone, kings men"whim may thou people to their deaths, and desperate on a as his masters. case, desperate men, who no reason toout, proud, which and Death definitely has see no way be may take their responds to thusfirst line ”Death, of his control ”. mastery. own lives, the cheating Death be not proud and