In John Donne’s Death be not proud, he personified death. He was trying to send a message telling people that Death is nothing to be afraid of. He said Death wasn’t mighty and dreadful, and people could overthrow him. Thus, there was no reason for Death to be proud, and Death should be the one who died. Death only resembled a long sleep, and an opening for people entering the other world.
In Ben Johnson’s On My First Son, he mourned about a father’s lost for his first son. After his son’s death, Ben Johnson decided to not treat people with so much love because if they past away, there would be a strong sense of great loss.
The themes of the two poems are different in ways that one was saying that Death shouldn’t be arrogant, and the other one was talking about the melancholy feeling a father had toward losing a family member. The poem by John Donne created an upbeat and inspiring atmosphere, whereas Ben Johnson had a mournfully sad one. However, they were similar in ways that there was element of death involved in both poems.
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