Eng Lit 12 LG #5- The Jacobean and Puritan Age Activity #2 – A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning Through out this piece, Donne uses many vivid images to present his theme of a love that transcends the physical and, as such, can stand the test of separation. The image of the two compass legs attached, yet moving in separate circles in the line ‘our two souls… /they are two so/ As stiff compasses are two, thy soul the fixed foot, makes no show/ To move but doth, if th ” other do.’ (24-26) paints a wonderfully clear picture in the readers’ mind. Another striking image is used in the stanza where the author describes the manner of the two lovers parting and says ‘As virtuous men mildly away/ And whisper to their souls, to go, / Whilst some of their sad friends do say, / The breath goes now, and some say no: / So let us melt and make no noise’ (1-5).
He seems to say to her ‘ we do not need to make a big scene to say goodbye, we both have suck a strong understanding of the strength of our love. On His Blindness Milton wrote this piece in Italian sonnet form of octaves and sestets. In the first eight lines Milton dwells on his blindness and how it has stopped him from doing what he loves, writing. In the line ‘And that one talent with is death to hide/ Lodged with me useless’ (3-4) he seems to mourn the lose of his sight and with it the lose of his ability to create his poetry. The feeling is one of lose and depression.
The Essay on Love Life Make Takes
I need to have my spouse forgive my, because I love him. I have hurt him so badly because of my actions and poor judgement. He has given me everything in the world, including he un denying love for me and constant trust, I have violated that. My best friend in the entire word, the best father a woman could ever want how did nothing to deserve this heartache that I have constantly caused him. I ...
Then in the last six lines, he answers his own depressed question of ‘Doth God extract day-labor, light denied?’ (7) by saying that he is just as important in the scheme of things, if he only ‘stands and waits’ (14).
The last sestet seems to be a sort of moral boosting message to the poet himself.
