ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -In “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, ” the speaker compares his soul and the soul of his beloved to a so-called twin compass. Also known as a draftsman’s compass, a twin compass has two legs, one that stays fixed and one that moves.

Detailed explanation-2: -In ‘A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning’, the relationship between two lovers who are shortly to be parted is compared to a pair of compasses: the legs of the compass may move apart, but they will always be joined together.

Detailed explanation-3: -It means that no matter how far he is away from his wife he will always be connected to her and he will never leave her. Just like a compass, he can’t make the circle without the leg to keep the compass grounded. Just like His wife keeps him grounded and he can’t do anything without her.

Detailed explanation-4: -Love: This poem is primarily concerned with the love between the speaker and his significant other. The speaker argues that even though he will be separated from his love by distance and circumstance, their love will remain true and pure.

Detailed explanation-5: -“A Valediction: forbidding Mourning” is one of Donne’s most famous and simplest poems and also probably his most direct statement of his ideal of spiritual love. For all his erotic carnality in poems, such as “The Flea, ” Donne professed a devotion to a kind of spiritual love that transcended the merely physical.