25+ Valediction Forbidding Mourning Poem Summary PNG. Donne's speaker begins with the very weird metaphor of an old man dying. Donne was leaving for france and was departing from his wife anne moore.
As virtuous men pass mildly away and whisper to their souls to gowhilst some of their sad friends do say.
As he travels farther from the center, she leans toward him, and as he travels in his circles, she remains firm in the center. As virtuous men pass mildly away. He finishes the poem with a longer comparison of himself and his wife to the two legs of a compass. Forbidding mourning by john donne text and stanza summaries.