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Answer 1

What message does the poet convey through combination of paradox and simile in these lines from the passage?



Our two souls therefore, which are one,
Though I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion,
Like gold to airy thinness beat.

The physical separation of their souls will intensify their grief.

The distance will lead them to grow apart from each other.

Their separation will only cause their united soul to expand.

Their relationship will falter under the pressure of parting.

Done
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

by John Donne (excerpt)

As virtuous men pass mildly away,
And whisper to their souls to go,
Whilst some of their sad friends do say
The breath goes now, and some say, No:

So let us melt, and make no noise,
No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move;
'Twere profanation of our joys
To tell the laity our love.
…
Our two souls therefore, which are one,
Though I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion,
Like gold to airy thinness beat.

If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two;
Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if the other do.

Answer 2

A i think mabye idk for sure???

Answer 3

That was wrong!

Answer 4

In the first two stanzas of the passage the poet employs a metaphor to compare his farewell to the death of virtuous men. Based on the context, what does the poet imply in the following line about himself and his lover?



'Twere profanation of our joys

Grieving for each other will save their relationship from fading away.

Weeping and mourning are degrading to the poet and his lover.

Bidding farewell to a dead person is an expression of mutual love.

Parting without tears will help lessen the pain of separation.

Done
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

by John Donne (excerpt)

As virtuous men pass mildly away,
And whisper to their souls to go,
Whilst some of their sad friends do say
The breath goes now, and some say, No:

So let us melt, and make no noise,
No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move;
'Twere profanation of our joys
To tell the laity our love.
…
Our two souls therefore, which are one,
Though I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion,
Like gold to airy thinness beat.

If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two;
Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if the other do.

Answer 5

SORRY

Answer 6

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