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DIacumin - A valediction: forbidding mourning - analysis first four quatrains
by DIacumin - (2011-04-04)
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Reading from the title this poem will be an invitation to somebody to not to suffer for something that happened or for a situation. The first quatrain is about deaths of virtuous men, because instead of other “normal” people this men make no noise when they die and also they let their souls to go. Other people that watch them die says that they are leaving the earthly world and another not making only noise. So this quatrain invites his lover to melt and not to make noise because it is vane. The second quatrain wants to say that their life continue and doesn’t finish with their love. So there he rebukes again his lover not to mourn and not to make sighs because it is only noise and these will not change what happened, is happening or will happens. Reading on John Donne use religion to say that we have not to desperate because it will ruin their life and their joys. The high use of hyperboles is a message not to cry because that behavior would profane their love. In the third quatrain Donne say that planets and stairs influence people’s life but we have not to follow at all them because they bring harms and fears. But it is not all their fault, because they are innocent because people decide what to do. The fourth quatrain is also about that two lovers can’t be separated because things that cause the separation would be removed forever.