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A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning. 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."
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A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning 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. www.themegallery.com
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning 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. www.themegallery.com
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning 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, oblqiuely run ; Thy firmness makes my circle just, 35 And makes me end where I begun. www.themegallery.com
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning • Metaphors • "As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go… • so let us melt, and make no noise. " • Here the author uses • metaphor of a virtuous man passing away that refers to his long departure, • and asks his lover not to be sad, and do not cry. • 2. "No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move. " • John Donne uses floods to compare with tears, and tempests to compare with sign. • Hyperbole and natural phenomena are used to be compared to this love relationship. • He uses this kind of emotional outbreak of laity's reaction to separation, • so as to highlight how refined his love is. www.themegallery.com
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning 3."Moving of the earth brings harm and fears… though greater far, is innocent." (the third stanza) The author implies the terrifying earthquakes as physical departure of those laity people. The movement of the spheres implies the spiritual departure of his lover and him. www.themegallery.com
Symbol • 1.melt: • physically and spiritually mixed together. • 2.The sphere: • perfection which represents the union of souls in a relationship. • 3.The circle: • it means perfection, too. • 4. The compasses: • combination of two lovers; closely related to each other. That kind of relationship which cannot be separated. www.themegallery.com
Structure • Stanza one: We consider it as a "foreword". It talks about a man is going to leave far away and ask his lover not to be sad for their love is noble. • Stanza two to five (the first persuasive view point): The speaker convinced the woman, his lover by telling her that his departure will not change their love for their love is based on oneness of their minds, not on physical contact, such as eyes, lips and head. The author also tells readers that their love is noble so laity people cannot understand it. Besides, he uses metaphors. For example, in stanza three, he compares the pain of two lovers physical separation to the earthquakes. www.themegallery.com
Structure 3. Stanza five to the last stanza (the second persuasive view point): The speaker still uses metaphors such as the endless expansion of gold to imply no matter how far they are apart, they are always together. He also compares their closely related and inseparable relationship to the compasses which its two legs are combined together whenever. The compasses means that even one part of them are separated, the other parts are still together. Plus, the outer leg moves (the man), the inner leg (the woman) moves, too. This metaphor describes perfectly their relationship. www.themegallery.com
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so ; Donne is saying that Death likes to think of himself as powerful and terrifying, and indeed some people have called him that, but he is not so in truth. www.themegallery.com
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee For those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow, Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me. Death thinks that he is "overthrowing" men when he takes them, but he does not cause them to fall. He helps them to finds Resurrection. Donne is sarcastic with "poor Death", who is so deluded as to think himself a bane on man's existence. And again, "nor yet canst thou kill me", hearkens back to the same idea that Death does not kill, but is instead the enabler of new, immortal life. Death cannot kill him, thus he holds no power over the speaker. www.themegallery.com
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure；then from thee much more must flow, And soonest our best men with thee do go, Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery. www.themegallery.com
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Here we have the Renaissance idea of sleep as death's image . They go with Death, their bones get to their rest (in the grave), and their souls get "delivered" (set free), containing the meanings at the same time of 1. being freed from the human body 2. freed from the fear of death 3. delivered into heaven 4. delivered in the sense of being born, or reborn. www.themegallery.com
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee • Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, • Here, Donne furthers the idea that Death is not mighty, but indeed is a slave, with “fate, chance, kings, and desperate men" as his masters. The personified Death does not always have the power to choose who is to die and chance may suddenly take someone, kings on a whim may doom people • to their deaths, and desperate men, who see no way out, • may take their own lives, thus cheating Death of his control and mastery. Next, Donne likens Death to a scavenger who cleans up where poison, war, and sickness have raged. • How proud is his position now? www.themegallery.com
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee • And poppy,or charms can make us sleep as well, And better than thy stroke ; why swell'st thou then? • Donne notes that drugs alike have the power of producing sleep, and in fact, create a truer sleep than Death. Thus, Death's omnipotent self-image is again belittled and shown as false hubris. Since this is the • case, what reason are you, Death, proud? www.themegallery.com
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee • One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more ; Death, thou shalt die. • After we are dead a fleeting moment,we will wake up resurrected, to eternal life, never to sleep or die again. Then, death will cease to exist altogether, will die. www.themegallery.com
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Here now the personified Death has been shown to be not mighty and dreadful,but a mere mortal, since he will die an eternal death at the resurrection, whereas we mortals will enjoy eternal life. The final pronouncement completes the idea that Death is the one who should be afraid, not the one to be feared. www.themegallery.com
