Question

What deos the poem mean when he says "One short sleep past we wake eternally and Death shall be no more"?​

Answer 1

Answer:

When Donne writes, “One short sleep past, we wake eternally, / And death shall be no more; death thou shalt die” (13-14). In these two lines Donne compares death with sleep again. He thinks we all wake up in our afterlife.

Answer 2

"One short sleep past we wake eternally and death shall be no more"

•  And Death shall be no additional;  Death, chiliad shalt die.”
•  Thus, “one catnap past”, that is, when we tend to ar dead for a momentary moment, “we wake eternally”
• That is, we'll awaken resurrected, to animation, ne'er to sleep or die once more.
• Then, death can stop existing altogether, will die. Here currently the personified Death is not “mighty and dreadful”