A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne Essay -- A Valedicti

A Valediction Forbidding Mourning, by John Donne explores revel through the ideas of assurance and separation. Donne uses vivid imagery to impart his moral themes on his audience. A surer, more polish love, Donne explains comes from a connection at the brainiac, the connection of devil souls as one. Physical presence is irrelevant if a true marriage of the minds has occurred, joining a pair of lovers souls eternally. In order to hunt the form which Donne gives to true love he chooses to create a shaft of separation. He insists that when in love, absence is not a cause for despair. Stanza two describes the usual reaction lovers have to separation further explains that such reactions of rupture and sighs do not prove ones love but rather the opposite by suggesting that the relationship depends on a bodily connection. In stanza three wherefore he states that it is the connection at the mind which is important to a devoted love, and that when this emotional connection of the s ouls is attained then eyes, lips, and hands, are less to miss.Donne uses a compass to create a optical metaphor for their love. Although the two feet may be utmost apart, they are endlessly joined in the center. This connection at the center is representative of the genial connection which is found at the center of true or refined love. Regardless of how far apart the feet of the compass may move, or how far apart lovers may travel, the connection which is the center of their relationship serves to hold and br...