A Valediction Of Forbidding Mourning: The Truth About Mourning

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The poem begins "As virtuous men pass mildly away, And whispering their souls to go." Here the persona is trying to convey to his lover that she should deal with his leaving as though it is a death. Not a death in which she should be sad, but of a death of a man that was a very good human being who will go peacefully and calmly to heaven. Also, that she has nothing to fear because in actuality he is not dying but just going away and for her to remember that they are very much in love. But the lover sees this as the souls leaving going to another place and never returning.
Next, Donne states, "But we, by a love much refined" implying that their love is pure and connected for eternity. He then goes on to add" Inter-assured of the mind, Care less, eyes, lips, and hands to miss." The persona is telling his lover that they should care less about the physical things because they are inter-assured of the mind and that they both believe and have confidence in ...

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