The metaphysical school. DeathBeNotProud is an Italian sonnet. The writing style of death, benotproud is metaphysical. The poem boldly uses imagination and sublimates death into a kind of god. The poet is confronting it without any timidity. The author of DeathBeNotProud is the British metaphysical poet John Donne. John Donne was a British metaphysical poet and priest in the seventeenth century. John Donne and his subsequent imitators are often called metaphysical poets. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, readers re-examined his works. It inspired great interest and had a profound influence on modern poetry.