A Valediction that prohibits mourning has other important themes and includes philosophical aspects: first we must say that the poem was written on the occasion of a farewell and it is precisely the theme of farewell that we can find in the poem.

After that, he affirms that nature, with its earthquakes, which frighten men, is innocent because it must restore natural balance and that the love of sublunar men, whose soul is meaning and essence, does not admit absence because It eliminates the elements that characterize man, who is indivisible and must live fully. After which Donne says that the two souls of him and his beloved cannot bear a separation but an expansion of souls: Donne in fact compares the expansion of souls to gold being beaten as an imperceptible line. Finally, in the last three stanzas there is the most beautiful simile of the poem because the poet compares his lover to a compass where the two feet are moving, of which the woman is the fixed point, which moves if the other foot moves. moves. Man forms a perfect circle and the perfect circle described by the compass with the help of the other foot shows how life has a beginning and an end.