AS virtuous men pass mildly away,
And whisper to their souls to go,
Whilst some of their sad friends do say,
"Now his breath goes," and some say, "No."
So let us melt, and make no noise, 5
No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move ;
'Twere profanation of our joys
To tell the laity our love.
Moving of th' earth brings harms and fears ;
Men reckon what it did, and meant ; 10
But trepidation of the spheres,
Though greater far, is innocent.
Dull sublunary lovers' love
—Whose soul is sense—cannot admit
Of absence, 'cause it doth remove 15
The thing which elemented it.
But we by a love so much refined,
That ourselves know not what it is,
Inter-assurèd of the mind,
Care less, eyes, lips and hands to miss. 20
Our two souls therefore, which are one,
Though I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion,
Like gold to aery thinness beat.
If they be two, they are two so 25
As stiff twin compasses are two ;
Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if th' other do.
And though it in the centre sit,
Yet, when the other far doth roam, 30
It leans, and hearkens after it,
And grows erect, as that comes home.
Such wilt thou be to me, who must,
Like th' other foot, obliquely run ;
Thy firmness makes my circle just, 35
And makes me end where I begun.
What is John Donne's poem A Valediction Forbidding Mourning about?
Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne is about the never ending love he had for his wife. He says that they will never be separated even when they are apart meaning they are always together spiritually
What is part of the central conceit in A Valediction Forbidding Mourning?
A drafting compass
two compasses
Is there juxtaposition in A Valediction Forbidding Mourning?
The narrator compares his love to gold beaten into a thin leaf.
The conceit involves a drafting compass.
The poem has an irregular rhyme scheme
What is the simile in the last stanza of the Valediction Forbidding Mourning?
From line 21 until the end of the poem, John Donne compares the two souls of him and his lover to feet that move together. The simile in the last stanza compares the soul to a foot which runs when the other foot (his lover's soul) runs
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