Switch to our new English teaching resources

Slide decks, worksheets, quizzes and lesson planning guidance designed for your classroom.

Play new resources video

Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. In this lesson, we will analyse the structure of Donne's 'Death, be not Proud' and explore what the structure tells us about Donne's ideas.

Licence

This content is made available by Oak National Academy Limited and its partners and licensed under Oak’s terms & conditions (Collection 1), except where otherwise stated.

Loading...

7 Questions

Q1.
Donne writes the poem to ...
Correct answer: Death
God
His dead wife
His friends
Q2.
Death is presented as ...
Evil
Correct answer: Less powerful that he thinks he is
Powerful and terrifying
Stupid
Q3.
What do 'thee' and 'thou' mean?
me
We
Correct answer: you
your
Q4.
Death is compared to...
A dark night
A summer's day
Poppys and charms
Correct answer: Rest and sleep
Q5.
Death is described as ...
A short sleep
Correct answer: A slave to fate, chance, kings and desperate men
Clever
Mighty and dreadful
Q6.
The eternal afterlife means ...
Correct answer: A life after you die that goes on forever
When you are reborn in a different form
When you die you go to Heaven or Hell
When you live more than 100 years
Q7.
A key idea in the poem is ...
Correct answer: Death does not exist in the eternal afterlife
Death is a bully
Death is happiest when he is asleep
Death poisons people

5 Questions

Q1.
What is a rhyme scheme?
It is known as iambic pentameter
The beat of the poem
Correct answer: The pattern of rhyming words at the end of lines
Words with the same end sound
Q2.
What is iambic pentameter?
A type of poem
A verse in a poem
Five pairs of stressed syllables
Correct answer: Five pairs of unstressed and stressed syllables
Q3.
What is structure in a poem?
Correct answer: How the poem is put together and laid out on the page
The ending of the poem
The layers of the poem
The outside of the poem
Q4.
Which of these describes a sonnet?
12 lines, one stanza and a rhyming couplet
Correct answer: 14 lines, one stanza and a specific rhyme scheme
16 lines, two stanzas and a specific rhyme scheme
18 lines, three stanza and a rhyming couplet
Q5.
Why might a poet break the sonnet rules?
By mistake
Correct answer: To add a specific meaning to the poem
To be funny
To make readers think more