An analysis of John Donnes' "A Valediction: Forbidden Mourning"

In the poem A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, by John Donne, the speaker is consoling his spotr who is mournful of the speakers close departure. The speaker is saying that since they have stronger than ordinary cognize for wizard another, their love will endure the separation. Donne uses metaphysical conceits and comparative imagination to illustrate the crux of the poem. The speaker is reassuring his lover by reminding her of how great their love is; it transcends the physical and on that pointfore will vote out whatever obstacle is set on their path. He is glum his lover to mourn his departure.

In the first half of the poem the speaker contrasts their love between that of spiritual and material objects; the inferior actions of the existence compared to those of the heavenly spheres (11). He is trying to prove to his lover how their love is not of the ordinary kind; it is more than simple affection. He compares their love to that of pure money saying let us melt, and make no noise (5). Pure gold, when melted, does not spatter, it melts peck smoothly. Therefore he is saying that if there love was gold it would make no noise for their love is that of the purest kind. The speaker and so says that worldly things [bring] harm and fears (9) but since their love is above earthly matters, they should consequently not be afraid of parting. The speaker feels that there should be no grieving and exaggerates his lovers anguish, telling her there should be no tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests (6).

The narrator talks of dull sublunary lovers...



whose [souls are] sense (13/14); these lesser couples love is based upon the five senses. He is saying that love cannot be simply based upon these senses, which are purely physical. wonder has to transcend...

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