John Donne s A Valediction Forbidding Mourning

Love poems are declarations of the admiration of the color of a lover’s hair, the texture of their bare skin, the shape of their smile. Love poems about loss are pieces of mourning and wailing. However, John Donne’s â€Å"A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning† does not fall into this cliched trap. Instead, Donne provides something genuine for his readers to dissect and ingest from the stanzas with varying contents. He also includes language that may be interpreted as sexual while saying that their relationship transcends the physical. â€Å"A Valediction† provides information on how Donne sees romantic relationships as well how poetry treats love as a whole. The poem’s first line states, â€Å"As virtuous men pass mildly away† (Line 1). It is odd that a poem that is acting as a love letter begins by describing the deaths of righteous men among their families and friends. Donne, in the first stanza, illustrates, â€Å"Whilst some of their sad friends do say/The breath goes now, and some say, No† (Lines 3-4). The author uses this peculiar introduction to show that the speaker is urging his beloved to not mourn his absence like the â€Å"friends† he mentions mourn the newly deceased. This becomes a major point in the poem that the speaker is attempting to express. The second stanza mentions â€Å"tear-floods† and â€Å"sigh-tempests†, moments of destruction caused by emotional expressions (Line 6). He urges his lover to â€Å"melt†¦ make no noise†; she should remain calm and simple, just like their love for one another.Show MoreRelatedJohn Donne s Valediction : Forbidding Mourning1763 Words   |  8 Pagesthroughout history, with multiple unions dissolved due to one spouse physically departing from the other. 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