Death Comes for the Archbishop

Name two types of figurative language that Donne uses in this poem and give one example for each?

Dead Be Not Proud

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Personification:

Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou are not so...

Metaphor:

From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,
Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow

Source(s)

Holy Sonnet 10