... in spiritual love can only be attained through a uniting of the bodies, this idea somewhat contradicts the points Donne makes about love in To His Mistress Going to Bed and Valediction: Forbidding Mourning. In To His Mistress Going to Bed, we see how highly Donne praises and enjoys the aspects of physical love. Donne refers to his mistress as, " O, my America, my Newfoundland ... the religious language raises the level of reverence he holds for the woman's physical attributes, and so physical love itself. In contrast with To His Mistress Going to Bed is Valediction: Forbidding Mourning,...

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