This is my play's last scene Summary & Analysis
by John Donne

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John Donne's "Holy Sonnet 6" (also known by its first words, "This is my play's last scene") is a meditation on death, the body, and the soul. The poem's speaker imagines what it will be like to die and pictures their soul's "flight" to heaven to meet God face to face—a prospect that fills the speaker with terror. Meanwhile, they imagine their body—and all the sins committed during earthly life—being left behind. The poem was probably written around 1609 and sits alongside 18 other poems collectively known as Donne's Holy Sonnets.

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