validiction

A Valediction: forbidding mourning, written by John Donne is a love poem, written to a women, encouraging her not to be distressed at the parting of her lover. Donne uses a number of techniques in order to portray his message.

In the first two stanzas, Donne creates a sombre mood, as to create a scene of someone at their deathbed. Such scene is created in order to associate it with the sadness of the lover’s parting. As Donne writes, “so let us make no noise”, he encompasses their love as to someone dying. This signifies that their love is unpretentious, thus undermining Petra Chan poetry, where it’s ostentatious.

The use of imagery language such as “melt” and “mildly” indicated the softness and gentleness of their love. Such gentleness is reinforced through the onomatopoeia “whisper”.

Donne metaphors the love between the lovers as “refin’d”, implying ...