Read the first four lines of Shakespeare’s "Sonnet 71.”No longer mourn for me when I am deadThan you shall hear the surly sullen bellGive warning to the world that I am fledFrom this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell:Now read the first four lines of Donne’s "Holy Sonnet 10.”Death, be not proud, though some have called theeMighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;For those, whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow,Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
Both excerpts focus on death. Shakespeare’s speaker refers to being dead and to the bell that announces his departure, while Donne directly addresses Death and argues that it cannot truly defeat him. Therefore, the shared subject is death, not anger, music, or power.
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