Donne personifies death in sonnet 10, which is common, but he claims that death has no real power. Death is inferior to “fate, chance, kings and desperate men.” Drugs (opium) are superior to death because it “makes us sleep as well.”In this instance, Donne takes something that is perceived as macro (death) and makes it micro. Donne mentions that death will die, which seems like he is equating death to humans. But he says death cannot kill him, thus also making humans superior to death. Ironically, this sonnet was published two years after Donne’s death, but we are still reading his work today.