N. A. NITU1 and M. E. I. KHAN2*
1=Nafisa Ahsan Nitu, Lecturer, Department of English, Fareast International University, Banani, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Email: nafisa_nitu16@yahoo.com, 2= Mohammad Ehsanul Islam Khan, Lecturer, Department of English, Manikarchar Bangabandhu (Degree) College, Meghna, Comilla, Bangladesh. *Corresponding author’s Email: asad.helloteen@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
The study was conducted at the Department of English, Fareast International University, Banani, Dhaka, Bangladesh during the period of September 2016 to December 2016. The current study depicts the aesthetic and repugnant qualities of death from the two famous poems to highlight John Donne’s and John Herbert’s artistic, dilapidated and appealing features of death in their poems Death, be not proud and Death respectively. Death is an expected inclination for all the people. Death means the cessation of life. This obsession with death is visible in the territory of literature. Among of other subjects in the literary world, death exists as one of the influential features in the writings of all the writers. As death is the ultimate goal of our existence. To some extent, these two metaphysical poets Herbert and Donne were overlooked for centuries and they are rediscovered and are now considered the leading poets of their time. Donne and Herbert describe death in two different perspectives in the first half of their poems “Death” but the second half of the poems is mostly similar expressing the peace of after life in the light of Christian belief.
Keywords: Death, Aesthetic, Repugnant and Resurrection.