Apostrophe

"Death, be not proud, though some have called thee"

In the poem "Death, be not proud" by John Donne, death is directly addressed multiple times throughout the work. Death should not be proud because it takes good men from earth. It takes away people who are loved and cared for. The tone of this poem is very confident. The speaker seems to be a man of assured faith with a firm conviction that death is not to be feared. The speaker directly says at the beggining of the poem that death should not be proud. At the end of the poem, he says that death should die. He wants death to feel the pain that it causes others.