In John Donne’s Poem a Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, he expresses the major themes of love, and general life. John Donne was very famous for numerous poems, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning is the poem many scholars and writers have marked as the best love poem in all of the English literature. He expresses the fact that true love is grounding, and not a love of body, but of the mind, and John Donne expresses his belief of why things are the way they are around us. John Donne’s Poem A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning hold three messages that are important for us to study, those being, grounding love, spiritual love, and an attitude that we cannot control every aspect of our own lives. Part of John Donne’s Poem A Valediction: Forbidding
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Donne expresses in two stanzas of his poem that loving with only the body is the dullest of love and not true at all. True wholesome love is to love with the mind, body and spirit. “Dull subliminary lovers love whose soul is sense cannot admit obscene, because t doth remove those things which element it lines 13-16”. If you think on it, the body deteriorates and dies away. Cells die and they never regenerate, to prove that our bodies are mortal and suffer the wrath of this world. The love that comes from this world and is only bodily, will deteriorate as well, and rot with the flesh, but a connection through the mind is not only soothing, but freeing, because then you can always be connected to that person in mind. R V. Young states firmly in his review of “John Donne’s Poem A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” that the mind is the heart of all love, and true love resigns in the mind, because only true lovers could reach such a level, and the false lovers will never penetrate past bodily lust. Shankar Raman uses “Loves Progress” the elegy to compare the force of love with “Valediction”, in a simple expression “love is a force you cannot touch, but only feel, and to feel it is something far greater than to feel the touch of skin.” I think this is a very profound idea and should be taken seriously by many …show more content…
“Moving of the earth brings harms and fears men recon what did and meant, but trepidation of the spheres, through grater fear is the innocent.” Lines 9-12. He is talking about earthquakes but in reality, there are earthquakes in relationships. Not just in lover’s relationships, but in friendships and the relationships between parents and children. This stanza is highly important, because he tells us that you have to be prepared for the trouble, and not be innocent about it, stand ready for it, and be prepared, or there is a chance the relationship you’re fighting for will not live past the short life you’ve given it. Raoul Granquvist studied the life of John Donne and found that the other poets of his time would add pieces of nature’s destruction to their poetry describing love, because all that love, tremble. In Donne’s time period they didn’t understand natural disasters, and sometimes claimed that God was to blame, but they also saw it as the best way to describe the turmoil of love. No love is so perfect to not face some kind of storm, but the ones who survive the storms are the ones who are prepared for
Donne expresses in two stanzas of his poem that loving with only the body is the dullest of love and not true at all. True wholesome love is to love with the mind, body and spirit. “Dull subliminary lovers love whose soul is sense cannot admit obscene, because t doth remove those things which element it lines 13-16”. If you think on it, the body deteriorates and dies away. Cells die and they never regenerate, to prove that our bodies are mortal and suffer the wrath of this world. The love that comes from this world and is only bodily, will deteriorate as well, and rot with the flesh, but a connection through the mind is not only soothing, but freeing, because then you can always be connected to that person in mind. R V. Young states firmly in his review of “John Donne’s Poem A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” that the mind is the heart of all love, and true love resigns in the mind, because only true lovers could reach such a level, and the false lovers will never penetrate past bodily lust. Shankar Raman uses “Loves Progress” the elegy to compare the force of love with “Valediction”, in a simple expression “love is a force you cannot touch, but only feel, and to feel it is something far greater than to feel the touch of skin.” I think this is a very profound idea and should be taken seriously by many …show more content…
“Moving of the earth brings harms and fears men recon what did and meant, but trepidation of the spheres, through grater fear is the innocent.” Lines 9-12. He is talking about earthquakes but in reality, there are earthquakes in relationships. Not just in lover’s relationships, but in friendships and the relationships between parents and children. This stanza is highly important, because he tells us that you have to be prepared for the trouble, and not be innocent about it, stand ready for it, and be prepared, or there is a chance the relationship you’re fighting for will not live past the short life you’ve given it. Raoul Granquvist studied the life of John Donne and found that the other poets of his time would add pieces of nature’s destruction to their poetry describing love, because all that love, tremble. In Donne’s time period they didn’t understand natural disasters, and sometimes claimed that God was to blame, but they also saw it as the best way to describe the turmoil of love. No love is so perfect to not face some kind of storm, but the ones who survive the storms are the ones who are prepared for