Explain the poetic techniques used in the opening lines of John Donne’s Sonnet X.
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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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 uses personification to show death as if it were a person who could feel proud or be "mighty" and "dreadful".
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