A Valediction - Forbidding Mourning
Donne's Poems are divided into two groups. "The Love Poems" and the "Divine Poems". "A Valediction - Forbidding Mourning" is a Love Poem expressing a positive attitude to love. again is supposed to have given this poem to his wife, when he left in France, 1611.
When virtuous man die, without much ado, some of the friends says that the death of the virtuous man goes now and some says that it does not. The death of the virtuous man quiet defies easy detection.
The lovers are compared to the soul of the body and the parting of the lovers is compared to the phenomenon of death. Donne's says that should part with the least demonstration of grief, otherwise people who are not affected by love may come to know of their joy. allowing their laymen of their joys is profanity.
Earthquakes are the precurssor of evils to come out the motions of the outer spheres are harmless occurence. The lovers paring is compared to the motion of the outer spheres, so one need not be afraid of it.
The love of the sublunary lovers are subjected to decline and delay. They cannot physical seperation, since seperation involves the seperation of the every elements of their sublunary lovers are dull because the sense of the sex-hunger are the prominent feature of their love. But Donne's love is true to its nature that they themselves cannot understand it. As they are abundantly assured of mutual understanding and possession, they have not eyes or lips or hand to lose of seperation.
Since their two souls have merged into one, it will not suffer any break or breach. But only an expansion like a fire thread, gold flattened out into an airy thinness. Again, their souls is compared to the legs of a compass. While one is fixed and stands in the centre, the other leg moves ariund it. It attentively inclines to the other, which roams afar and become erect, when the other comes home. The image reveals the harmony excisting between husband and wife. The husbands foreign venture in search of fortune and the wife joys on his return the same image also refers to the completion of a circle by the pain of a compass. Circles are emblematic of operfection. One leg is steadfast and the other gives round. It is her steadfastness which makes the course of his soul and makes him in the end, return from where he came. This audocious image of the compass is a very good of the metaphysical conceit.
This poem explains about the Love express.
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