[英国文学] A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

The poem “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” is about a couple’s parting and the love or a high spiritual level. The subject of the poem is the parting of two lovers. In the poem, the description of the lover’s love is without a doubt. The author tells his wife not to cry when he leaves, because their love is so much greater than everyone else’ love that can endure separation. 'A Valediction Forbidding Mourning', in which the wit of the metaphysical conceit is used in relation to an intense emotional subject. The effect this has is not to undermine the emotion of the lovers parting.

1.The poem “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” is about a couple’s parting and the love or a high spiritual level.
2.The scene shows the conceit of a parting between lovers being like death.
3.If they be two, they are two so
4.Thus the compass figure enacts her role in the separation, leaning and inquiring after the wandering foot, but growing erect as that comes back to her.

Donne, J. 'A Valediction Forbidding Mourning', 'The Flea', 'Holy Sonnets' in ed. Ferguson, M, Salter, M and Stallworthy, J (1996) The Norton Anthology of Poetry, 4th edn., New York: Norton
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