Death be not Proud

In death be not proud we see excellent uses of cataloging and diction to show the mocking of death, and to belittle his power and reasons to fear him. The speaker in this poem, who may be john Donne and who may not be John Donne, we can never really tell, uses diction to bring top light reasons to not fear death, and to show death as less of a powerful being, and more of a weak servant. then later we see uses of cataloging to reinforce this theme of mockery towards death as told by the speaker.
Diction is used to mock death in many instances. First of all we see the uses of rest and sleep as the pictures and instruments of death. this is because when we see dead people, they look peaceful and almost as if they are sleeping. This takes the fear out of death as sleep is a happy and wonderful thing that i personally look forward to, and if sleep is an instrument of death, how can we fear it? Then later down towards the end of the peom, we see that we have but one short sleep and then we wake enternally. this means that we die only briefly and are then born into heaven and all its glory, or something along those lines, as John Donne was christian. this takes even more fear and stigma away from death as he take us to heaven, and how can anything that takes us to such a fabled, beautiful place be scary or bad?
Catalouging is used to destroy the power that death lords over us. This is done in the middle of the peom with the line "thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men". this line clearly says that death is a slave, and because he is a slave to the action of kings and desperate men, key word desperate, and forces such as fate and chance, how can he have any real power. Death makes nothing happen, he only reactes to what has been done, thus he is merely the bus boy of life. The next instance of catalouging is seen in the very next line where death is said to dwell with poison, war and sickness. As he is among poison war and sickness, he is not among good company, and has a horrible existence, thus he has no power, and in fact is pitied by the reader.
I personally really like death be not proud as it was pretty straight forward and although it was still a peom, i wasnt totally lost in the language, which in most of Donne's poems holds me back from the understanding them. I personally theorize that the speaker could actually mocking death, or he could be trying to belittle death for his own sake as he actually fears death and is reassuring himself and trying to improve his own confidence.