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larisa [96]
4 years ago
12

Explain the poetic techniques used in the opening lines of John Donne’s Sonnet X.

English
1 answer:
KonstantinChe [14]4 years ago
8 0
Donne is using both personification and apostrophe in these lines. He is using apostrophe when he speaks to death as though it were a person who could hear it and respond to him. he also personifies death as if it were a person who could feel proud or be "mighty" and "dreadful".
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