Analysis Of Donne's A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

As what I have mentioned above, we can see that A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning is considered to be Donne's most famous valedictory poem, in which Donne strongly uses figures of speech, especially metaphor, to express the strong love between him and his wife. According to this, I want to talk something detailed about the metaphors he used in such an attractive poem and their uncompromising love as well as the ordinary, shallow, love.
At the threshold, Donne begins it with the very weird metaphor of a virtuous old man dying to speak out his strong desire that the parting between him and his wife should be as gentle and quiet as the death of an old man, even though it is difficult and inevitable, which sounds much romantic and euphemistic. And from the point of my view, this is not because he is afraid of the separation of the lovers to be …show more content…
Dexterously, he says that he and his wife are like a compass when drawing a circle. One foot of the compass, embodying Donne, goes way out and travels around, while the other, standing for his wife, stays planted at home and leans after it. But those two compass feet are always combined with one unit and will always end up back together- he will return to his lover after he ends his journey. As the ensample I have presented previously, if the girl believed that her lover would come back to the center where she was, or the boy could be fully confident that his lover is still standing at the same place waiting him to come home, all things would be totally different. Just as we give props to anyone that can drop the microphone with that as a closing image.
To conclude, shallow love, after all, cannot match the enemy- distance or other impediments. Here is one thing we can do- to sublimate the shallow love into a higher level, to let it become so uncompromising, stable that nothing can match it, just as love of John Donne and his