Valediction Forbidding Mourning
The speaker reveals that he is forced to spend time away from
his lover but before leaving he says that their farewell is not the occasion
for sorrow and mourning. In the same virtuous men die mildly and without
complaint, he says they should leave without “tear- floods” and “sigh-
tempests”, for to publicly announce their feelings in such a way would profane
their love. The speaker says when the
earth moves, it brings ‘harms and fears’ but when the spheres experience ‘trepidation’
though the impact is greater, but at the same time it’s innocent also. The love of dull sublunary lovers cannot
survive separation but it removes the love which constitutes itself, but the
love he shares with his beloved is so refined and inter-assured of the mind
that they need not worry about missing “eyes, lips and hands”.
As he has to go their
souls would be one and they are not enduring a discontinuity though they are
experiencing an “expansion”, the soul they share will simply stretch in all the
spaces between them. If their souls are separate he says they are like the feet
of compass that is- his lover soul is the fixed foot in the center and his is
the foot that moves around it. The firmness of the center foot
makes the circle that the outer foot draws perfect: “Thy firmness makes my circle
just, / And makes me end, where I begun.”
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