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Teachers' Resource Web Study Questions on John Donne Donne's "Good Friday 1613" and "Death be not Proud" "Good Friday" 1. Why the date? the day? 2. Why the direction? What is its symbolic significance? 3. What movements take place in the poem? --hypothesis: poem's movement establishes certain working fictions --narrative drama involving protagonist produces logical meditations --reflective ending; speaker responding to/resolving the paradoxes 4. What are the chief metaphors/analogies that Donne establishes and then reorganizes? 5. Why "Sun," "Face"? "Death be not Proud" 1. How is the sonnet rounded out? 2. Where are the logical turns in the poem, and how do they help to create a sense of formal integrity? 3. What kinds of tone do we see in the progress of the address? Why does Donne use apostrophe in the first place? Are there a series of tonal shifts that create their own internal drama?
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