A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning | Lines 17-24 Summary
Lines 17-20: The speaker continues to reassure his love by developing the qualities that make the love they share capable of enduring a separation. In contrast with sublunary lovers, their love is not based solely on sensual gratification. In fact, it is a love so pure that even they themselves cannot define it. But because they feel confident in each's feelings for the other, their physical separation—the absence of eyes, lips, and hands—causes them less anxiety.
Lines 21-24: The speaker begins drawing conclusions about the relationship between his soul and his...
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