A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
... In the first stanza, the poet uses simile to compare between the virtuous men and departing of two lovers. The poet is explaining that the farewell should be as mild “As virtuous men pass mildly away”. Donne continues to explain the mild departure of two lovers using more comparisons in second stanza. He compares the tears to floods. Also He says, "So let us melt, and make no noise, No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move". He compares their relationship to a block of ice that melts slowly and the leaving should be quiet and “make no noise”. In the fourth stanza, Donne explains that the lovers have to have physical being to stay together. When it reads, “…Lover’s love cannot admit absence…”. In the seventh stanza, two legs of a compass are used as a metaphor for two lovers. Donne shows that the two legs of a compass used to draw circles moves together and that the lovers’ souls should be like the compass. Also, it means that when one of the compass leg ...