Meditations on Margaret Edson’s “W;t”–with further reflections on whether Donne’s poetry can help us handle death.
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Can Donne Help Us Cope with Death?
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Wit Won’t Cushion Us against Death
Will John Donne’s “Death Be Not Proud” help one handle the fact that one has cancer? It is significant that the cancer victim and Donne scholar in Margaret Edson’s W;t is rejecting her poet by the end of the play. I’m actually not sure whether this particular poem would help any cancer patient. There’s a […]
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