Brandi,
For question 5, the phrase “death be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou art so,” definitely made me see how the speaker is diminishing death. He has such a strong belief in an afterlife and in my mind he is saying “death be not proud” in a very firm tone. The speaker is saying this with such passion and belief in the afterlife, meaning death shouldn’t be “proud” because death never wins with an eternal life.
For question 6, I found it interesting how you thought of the more literal sense of death. Being that when you die, theoretically things go dark and essentially the light is gone and you are dead. I was somewhat confused in your example of the lines referring to light and how people hadn’t been
For question 5, the phrase “death be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou art so,” definitely made me see how the speaker is diminishing death. He has such a strong belief in an afterlife and in my mind he is saying “death be not proud” in a very firm tone. The speaker is saying this with such passion and belief in the afterlife, meaning death shouldn’t be “proud” because death never wins with an eternal life.
For question 6, I found it interesting how you thought of the more literal sense of death. Being that when you die, theoretically things go dark and essentially the light is gone and you are dead. I was somewhat confused in your example of the lines referring to light and how people hadn’t been