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This poem, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning is about love, death, dying, and mourning. The title suggests that it’s a goodbye from a dying person, and can be a sad, sorrowful event or just a simple goodbye. The poem discusses the parting of a loved one, probably his wife. She died giving birth to their 12th child at the age of 32. His love for her was so great that her death left him in a painful state of grief. Whilst some of their sad friends do say The breath goes now; and some say, No; He doesn’t want to let her go, his love for her is so immense, that he can’t bare physical separation. He also compares love as two, who become one, like the melting of gold, and the imagery of a compass. He describes that their love is like the head of a compass that stays still as the feet move apart.
Approximate Word count = 542
Approximate Pages = 2.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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