A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

by John Donne

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A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning Questions and Answers

Justify the title of the poem "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning."

What are the features of metaphysical poetry in "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"?

Provide a critical appreciation of "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning."

How does 'A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning' celebrate love's spiritual quality?

What is being compared in lines 1-6 of "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" and how are they similar?

How does the poet justify his separation from his lover in "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"?

Identify two similes in "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" and explain their relation to the theme.

What contrast is John Donne making between "sublunary lovers' love" and "refined" love?

Who are the characters in "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"?

Why is the speaker consoling his wife in "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"?

What is the speaker's claim in "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"?

Why might the speaker be concerned about their relationship's future?

How effectively does the poet use paradox in "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" and contrast in the poem's final two lines?

What type of language is used in "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," and does it match the figures of speech?

What is the central message of "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"?

In "Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," what conceit does Donne use in stanzas 7 - 9?

What reasons does Donne give for not mourning in "A Valediction: Forbidden Mourning"? Are they believable?

What is the significance of the title in "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"?

What are the themes in "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"?

What tone does the imagery in "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" create?

How does John Donne describe separation in "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"?

What does the conceit in lines 25-36 of "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" suggest about love?

What is the metaphor in Stanza 3 of "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"?

What is the conceit of John Donne's "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"?

Identify two phrases from "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" indicating a quiet, calm farewell.

What comparisons are made in the poem "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"?

Why should the parting couple in "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" "melt" and "make no noise"?

What could be a suitable thesis for "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"?

If you were the woman in John Donne's "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," would you find his reassurances persuasive?

What does A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning infer about the addressee's personality?

How does John Donne glorify unique love in "The Canonization" and "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"?

What are the figures of speech in the poem "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"?

How does the speaker compare the situation in stanzas 1-9 in "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"?

What does "refining gold" mean in "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"?

What is metaphysical about "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning?"

Can you explain the poem, "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"?

How does the compass in "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" represent refined love between separated lovers?

How is the image of melting in line 5 of "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" relevant to the poem?

Why isn't the speaker in "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" disturbed by bidding farewell to his beloved?

How does the persona contrast the couple's love with "Dull sublunary lovers' love"?

What is the meaning of the line in "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," "Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th' other foot, obliquely run"?

How is "A Valediction" an example of a metaphysical poem?

What do the metaphors "man as a chapter" and "man as a piece of a continent" mean?

Describe the first line, "As virtuous men pass mildly away," in the poem "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning."

How sincere is John Donne's poem "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"?

What representations of love are in "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"?

How does "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" reflect John Donne's metaphysical style?

Can you explain the similes in "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"?

How does John Donne use religion in his characters in "Break of Day", "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning", and "Elegy 19: To His Mistress"?

Compare the themes of Marvell's "The Definition of Love" and Donne's "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning."