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A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning: Love Between Two People
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Although the subject matter of A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning could be applied to any couple pending separation, according to Izaak Walton, a seventeenth-century biographer, John Donne wrote his poem for his wife on the eve of his departure for France in 1611 (Damrosch et al. 238). In the poem, the speaker pleads with his lady to accept his ....
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....love as “tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move” (line 6). The speaker thinks that it would be a “profanation” (line 7) to reveal the sacred love he shares with his lady. It would be similar to priests revealing the mysteries of their faith to “the laity” (line 8), that is, to ordinary people. The loud display of grief upon separation woul.... |
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