a valediction forbidding mourning
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" A Valediction : Forbidding Mourning"
The poem "A Valediction:Forbidding Mourning," brings about a theme that is relevant to modern relationships. "Absence makes the heart grow fonder" is one of the most widely used expressions when illustrating love today. The speaker defines and celebrates a love that transcends the physical and can therefore endure and grow through separation. Throughout the poem, Donne skillfully compares the love of the speaker and his lady to things that seem completely different to the love between them. The huge apparent differences bring the love between the love of the speaker and his lady to a level of perfection.
Donne uses a series of bold and unexpected comparisons for the love between the speaker and his lady. He uses such elaborate images that suggest that the speaker is separating himself from body and soul. Donne engages in a lesson to show the parallel between a positive way to meet death and a positive way to separate from a lover. Donne makes his first analogy in the first stanza when he compares his parting from his lover to virtuous man at death. According to the speaker, "virtuous men pass mildly away/And whisper to their souls to go," shows the glory and reward in his life therefore he can now die without fear or emotion because he accomplished all he wanted...