In John Donne's "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," it is obvious that the man in this poem is madly in love with his women and feels a strong sexual bond with her when he writes "So let us melt, and make no noise" (Kirszner & Mandel 816). This line in the poem suggests that the man does not wish to share his women with anyone. He wants the two of them to connect or form one body in peace. Let nothing be in their way of their love making. These two could be married.

In William Shakespeare's "My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun," it could be argued that the speaker in the poem loves his "mistress" but is not in love with who she is as opposed to Donne's "Valediction." Shakespeare writes "Coral is far more red than her lips' red" (Kirszner & Mandel 684). This suggests tha

Each of these poems has similarities as well as contrasting views. Both poems involve relationships between the opposite sex, but Shakespeare finds loss of love in lust as Donne seeks the greatest love of all: lasting relationship.

Donne reveals how not only he feels for his women sexually, but passionately as well when he writes "But we, by a love so much refined that ourselves know not what it is" (Kirszner & Mandel 817). This portion of the poems depicts a willingness for a lasting body and soul. Their relationship is so finely tuned and deep enough for only each other to breath in. Still, there is mystery around every corner because he said that even they do not fully understand it.

From loose lust to lasting love, Donne writes "Our two souls, therfore, which are one, though I must go...like gold to airy thinness beat" (Kirszner & Mandell 817). This man is about to depart his women for an indefinite time and he does not want to leave her. He is so attached to her that he feels that he is making their one, or unity, into two pieces. Although he leaves her, it is not in vein. Donne writes "If they be two, they are two so as stiff twin compasses are two" (Kirszner & Mandell 817). He makes it very evident to his women for as long as they are apart

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