John Donne´s ¨A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning¨ is one of his most famous poems, it is written in an

iambic tetrameter meter, what means that every two sentences rhyme (ABAB).

In the poem we can tell that a separation is about to happen, but Donne tells us that this separation is a
little different because there should not be tears and sadness on their goodbye, he and his beloved are
not separating creating a void between them, they are separating but more like expanding, the reason
behind this is that they are in true love and their souls have merged into one.

He compares their separation to these things throughout the poem:

 The mild death of a virtuous men.

 The movement of the earth, moon, other planets and earthquakes.
 A compass and both of his legs.

Donne first says that he and his beloved are two souls merged into one but if that’s not the case and
they are two separate souls, they work like the two legs of a compass were one guides the other and it
also means the values of Donne’s spiritual love that are balanced, symmetrical, intellectual, serious, and
beautiful.

Donne in this and many of his other poems reflects on how his love is different to what people
experience and are used to.

These comments of Donne having a different, superior, maybe supernatural create an aristocracy are
common in his poems, were the elite or the ones that have access to this superior feeling of love are he,
his beloved and some times the reader. These comments are also a criticism to political aristocracy that
has been a little mean to Donne through out his life