How does the sonnet resolve its paradoxes: that those who die do not die and that Death itself will die?
People who die do not die because their souls will go on another eternal life. However, Death itself will die because once the soul enters eternity, it lives; there will be no death anymore. No matter how a person dies, he is in rest and peace, away from the secular world and his soul will live eternally in the heaven. The sonnet personifies death as a person who should not be proud because, though he (Death) is "mighty and dreadful" to some people, he or the fear he causes will be disappear once the person dies.
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