Why Is John Donne's Death Be Not Proud

Donne’s Death be not proud is the exact opposite in language, form and message to Emily Dickinson’s I heard a fly buzz when I died. Donne’s poem takes place in a metaphysical setting at the moment of death, allowing Donne to communicate to death and insult him. Dickinson’s poem takes place at her home at the time of her death, her description of, “The Eyes around - had wrung them dry - / And Breaths were gathering firm”, Dickinson’s short prose and use of dual iambic tetrameter then triameter encapsulating the indescribable nature of her family’s feelings through physical reactions and continuing, peaceful poetic continuity. The peaceful language of Dickinson’s death contrasts against the metaphorical call-to-arms Donne is appropriating against death.
Donne does not believe in the symbolic powerful figure of death, his ridicule of death as a figure and the fear around the concept, as for a man, “One short sleep past, we wake eternally / And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die”. Donne’s belief in the afterlife and religious heaven, where the soul of a man and God are united for eternity, allow him to make a mockery of the power of death. I heard a fly buzz when I died has the opposite message, Dickinson’s fear yet pride in death, with comes through in her language. Dickinson “…heard a Fly buzz - when [she] died”, the fly “With Blue - uncertain - stumbling Buzz - / Between the light - and me -