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A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning: Love Between Two People
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Although the subject matter of A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning could be applied to any couple pending separation, according to Izaak Walton, a seventeenth-century biographer, John Donne wrote his poem for his wife on the eve of his departure for France in 1611 (Damrosch et al. 238). In the poe ....
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.... the mysteries of their faith to “the laity” (line 8), that is, to ordinary people. The loud display of grief upon separation would therefore desecrate the sacred love of the speaker and his lady to the less elevated love of ordinary people.
The second stanza introduces another category of startling comparative images, referring to the motions or changes of the earth and spheres. Donne’s contemporaries believed that the heavens were perfect(reflecting the perfection of God). Everything “sublunar.... |
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