In The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Tolstoy explores a man’s attitude toward death. The poem “Death Be Not Proud” by John Donne portrays the same theme. Read and listen to the poem.

Death Be Not Proud

by John Donne

Death be not proud, though some have called thee

Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not soe,

For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow,

Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill mee.

From rest and sleepe, which but thy pictures bee,

Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow,

And soonest our best men with thee doe goe,

Rest of their bones, and soules deliverie.

Thou art slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men,

And dost with poyson, warre, and sicknesse dwell,

And poppie, or charmes can make us sleepe as well,

And better then thy stroake; why swell'st thou then?

One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally,

And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.

In a short essay, compare how the speaker in Donne’s poem talks about death with how Ivan Ilyich thinks about death in chapters 5–8 of The Death of Ivan Ilyich. What does death symbolize for the speaker in the poem? What does it seem to symbolize so far for Ivan Ilyich? Cite evidence from both texts to support your response.

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In The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Tolstoy explores a man’s attitude toward death. The poem “Death Be Not Proud” by John Donne portrays the same theme. Read and listen to the poem.

Death Be Not Proud

by John Donne

Death be not proud, though some have called thee

Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not soe,

For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow,

Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill mee.

From rest and sleepe, which but thy pictures bee,

Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow,

And soonest our best men with thee doe goe,

Rest of their bones, and soules deliverie.

Thou art slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men,

And dost with poyson, warre, and sicknesse dwell,

And poppie, or charmes can make us sleepe as well,

And better then thy stroake; why swell'st thou then?

One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally,

And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.

In a short essay, compare how the speaker in Donne’s poem talks about death with how Ivan Ilyich thinks about death in chapters 5–8 of The Death of Ivan Ilyich. What does death symbolize for the speaker in the poem? What does it seem to symbolize so far for Ivan Ilyich? Cite evidence from both texts to support your response.

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Greenleafable Greenleafable · Answer 1 · 2017-11-13T13:23:39+01:00

On one hand, we have the narrator of Death Be Not Proud who is brave when faced with Death. He is trying to diminish its influence by showing that he is not afraid because it can't do much to him - once he dies, he will transcend life and continue existing somewhere else, and then Death won't have any power over him - "One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally, And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die."

On the other hand, we have Ivan Ilyich from The Death of Ivan Ilyich. Here, we have quite the opposite situation. We can see that Ivan is terribly afraid of dying and that he is trying to deny the fact that death is near. He doesn't want to die, he isn't ready for that, and he is scared to death. He is not sure if there is anything beyond death, whereas the first speaker is quite certain death is not the end. "When I am not, what will there be? There will be nothing. Then where shall I be when I am no more? Can this be dying? No, I don't want to!"

Daryn121504 Daryn121504 · Answer 2 · 2018-09-27T15:50:05+02:00

The primary contrast between these two works is that the poem’s speaker mocks death, while Ivan Ilyich appears to be weakened and defeated by death. Tolstoy’s protagonist realizes that much of his life has been empty and unfulfilling.

The following lines from John Donne’s “Death Be Not Proud” show that the speaker mocks death:

Death be not proud, though some have called thee

Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not soe,

Thou art slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men,

And dost with poyson, warre, and sicknesse dwell,

And poppie, or charmes can make us sleepe as well,

And better then thy stroake; why swell'st thou then?

In contrast, Tolstoy’s Ivan Ilyich is terrified and confused, and he cannot accept the fact that he is dying:

"My strength grew less and I kept coming nearer and nearer, and now I have wasted away and there is no light in my eyes. I think of the appendix—but this is death! I think of mending the appendix, and all the while here is death! Can it really be death?" Again terror seized him and he gasped for breath.

"If I had to die like Caius I would have known it was so. An inner voice would have told me so, but there was nothing of the sort in me and I and all my friends felt that our case was quite different from that of Caius. And now here it is!" he said to himself. "It can't be. It's impossible! But here it is. How is this? How is one to understand it?" He could not understand it, and tried to drive this false, incorrect, morbid thought away and to replace it by other proper and healthy thoughts. But that thought, and not the thought only but the reality itself, seemed to come and confront him.

The view of death is very different for the speaker in John Donne’s poem compared to Ivan Ilyich. For the speaker in the poem, death is a journey to eternal life:

One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally,

And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.

For Ivan Ilyich, death is darkness, nothingness, a chilling reality that he is frightened to accept:

"Yes, life was there and now it is going, going and I cannot stop it. Yes. Why deceive myself? Isn't it obvious to everyone but me that I'm dying, and that it's only a question of weeks, days...it may happen this moment. There was light and now there is darkness. I was here and now I'm going there! Where?" A chill came over him, his breathing ceased, and he felt only the throbbing of his heart….

"When I am not, what will there be? There will be nothing. Then where shall I be when I am no more? Can this be dying? No, I don’t want to!” He jumped up and tried to light the candle, felt for it with trembling hands, dropped candle and candlestick on the floor, and fell back on his pillow.