The Holy Sonnet written by John Donne in numerous ways deals with the concept of death. From this sonnet one can see Donne is a very religious man and believes in the Christian values. These values are having eternal life after death. So when one die one will be brought up to heaven and then be able to live with God forever in paradise. This shows that the time the sonnet was written the people like John Donne were God fearing. Donne criticises Death throughout the sonnet. Donne uses different techniques to show his interpretation of Death. In all of his sonnets, John Donne writes in a very old fashioned way by putting `e' on the end of different words this shows that the sonnets originated before the modernization of the language.

The format to The Holy Sonnet X is a classical or Petrarchan type of sonnet. It...