A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

The speaker opens with an image of

• earthy disturbances

• men weeping

• good men dying quietly

• the movements of the heavens

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John Donne wrote "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" upon

• dying

• parting from his wife

• parting from his family

• parting from his children

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The poem concerns what happens when

• two lovers have to part

• a lover dies

• when you lose a child

• a man leaves for war

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The two lovers in this poem have a

• unrequited love

• enduring loove

• obsessive love

• spiritual unification

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The title of the poem explicitly prohibits

• farewells

• grief about saying goodbye

• valedictions

• morning

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Donne’s title explicitly prohibits grief about saying goodbye because the speaker and his lover are

• mutually bound together in the heavens.

• now sharing one body and one soul which is like a shining star.

• confident and secure their love is eternal like life after death.

• linked so strongly by spiritual bonds that their separation has little meaning.

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Their souls expand outward to cover the distance between them as

• a fixed foot

• a soft metal is beaten to spread thinly over a larger surface area

• a drafting compass

• circles and spheres

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The speaker of Donne’s poem argues that visible grief at the lovers’ parting would be a

• profanation

• veneration

• glorification

• honor

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This is a fanciful metaphor, especially a highly elaborate or extended metaphor in which an unlikely, far-fetched, or strained comparison is made between two things

• Hyperbole

• analogy

• metaphor

• conceit

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"A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" is a set of nine

• quatrains

• sestets

• quintains

• septets

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