The speaker in Donne's poem sees death as powerless over eternal essence, while Ivan Ilyich initially views death with fear and suffering.
Death symbolizes different concepts in John Donne's poem 'Death Be Not Proud' and in 'Death of Ivan Ilyich' chapters 5-8. In Donne's poem, death is portrayed as something that is not to be feared, asserting that it cannot truly conquer the individual's essence. It symbolizes an inevitable part of life that does not hold power over the eternal essence of a person. On the other hand, in 'Death of Ivan Ilyich,' death initially symbolizes fear, suffering, and the unknown, as seen through the perspective of Ivan Ilyich who struggles with accepting his mortality.
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