Read the first four lines of Shakespeare's "Sonnet 71."

No longer mourn for me when I am dead

Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell

Give warning to the world that I am fled

From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell:

Now read the first four lines of Donne's "Holy Sonnet 10."

Death, be not proud, though some have called thee

Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;

For those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow,

Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

The topic that both quatrains have in common is

A) anger.

B) death.

C) music.

D) power.

(A and D is incorrect)

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Avah Orozco

9 May, 11:18

Read the first four lines of Shakespeare's "Sonnet 71."

No longer mourn for me when I am dead

Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell

Give warning to the world that I am fled

From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell:

Now read the first four lines of Donne's "Holy Sonnet 10."

Death, be not proud, though some have called thee

Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;

For those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow,

Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

The topic that both quatrains have in common is

A) anger.

B) death.

C) music.

D) power.

(A and D is incorrect)

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Corey Haas · Answer 1

The answer is B) death.

A solid clue is that the word "death" or "dead" is used in both.

The first sonnet indicated that the author should not be mourned when he dies, for he is in a better place "I am fled from this vile world"

The second sonnet similarly states that death should not be feared, and that death cannot actually kill him (he believes in the afterlife).