A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning | Lines 25-32 Summary
Lines 25-28: The speaker now admits that he and his love may have two separate souls rather than one. He then develops the connectedness of their two souls in one of Donne's most famous and most ingenious metaphysical conceits, an extended simile in which the speaker compares the lovers' two souls to the feet of a drafting compass. He compares her soul to the compass' "fixed foot" and his to the other foot. Like the compass, their two souls are joined at the top, reminding us that their love is a spiritual union "interassured of the mind."
Lines 29-32: The speaker...
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