In the poem A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, John puts in each verse, his insights on the condition of each human of love and the relation to the soul through the conceit, of drawing compasses. The author brings the reader to an understanding of separation of the body and soul in the first stanza. It seems that the soul is not part of the body. The soul is connected to the body until death then after death the soul leaves the body. When the author uses “whisper” in the poem he is suggesting that the body and soul can be one with each other. Separation of body and soul is a must and it is a concept to the poem as it progresses. The writer had described the two souls of the lovers being mixed and that the bodies are separate. In line 21 there is a motif which is used through the entire poem. “Our two souls therefore, which are one, / though I
must go, endure not yet / A breach, but an expansion. Donne’s makes it clear that cannot separate the lovers because of the soul, which is separated from the body. This kind of love lives on forever and does not die.
known that the souls do not use speech “sigh-tempests”, used in line 6, which makes their love known for each other.
At the end of the poem is the soul, can never be separated like the bodies. The lover’s bodies are separated by great lengths they will be like the compass which is that points are wide, although the handle brings them together. The compass is the vehicle for his conceit. The author states that lover’s bodies are physically separated but the two or joined by the soul. The author uses the poem Valediction to make his statement which like proof. He states that while the human passes the soul remains.
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