Summary of the Poem 'Death Be Not Proud" is one of the nineteen Holy Sonnets written by the great metaphysical poet John Donne. As a typical product of Renaissance, Donne wrote a kind of love and religious poetry that shocked its readers into attention with its wit, conceits, far fetched imagery, erudition complexity, colloquial and … Continue reading John Donne – Holy Sonnet X / Death Be Not Proud (Poem Summary)