that Death is actually lower than the lowest forms of wickedness, as Donne depicts him as a "slave" to those lowly beings. Death is a slave, the lowest class of any society, to those vile things. Again, Donne belittles Death and insults his ego using words of vivid imagery for impact and shock effect. He chose his words carefully in a way that the contextualist can feel the conviction behind his lack of respect and disgust for Death.Donne's poem, "Death be not proud," has a powerful message that hits the senses in a search for his true meaning. The words, as well as the vivid imagery used in his poem form a pattern that expresses his overall theme brilliantly. The pattern is contradiction. He wants to contradict all conventional thoughts the reader might have had all his life beforehand, and dispel them, giving him the sense that there is an intensity about his convictions that must lead to some truth. The contextualist can really delve into the inner soul of Donne and discover his fears as well as his strengths in encountering death. I see myself associating to a contextualist much more than any other world hypothesis. I look at the world in search of what true qualities it bears and the passion it invokes. I want to question every traditional thought I was taught growing up so as to find my own truth rather than rely on the path that others have taken. My development into a contextualist started as a very young girl but seemed to have skipped some years where I feel I did not add to my intellectual strength much at all. Those years lasted from junior high through high school, which is probably no surprise. Those tend to be our most rebellious years. However, I am not so sure my college years are not more rebellious. I find that the more I learn about myself, the more I want myself to know the world's passions, vivid qualities, and truths. As a very young girl, my mother tells me, I always seemed to be lost in thoug...
