Love in John Donnes A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning and Andrew Marv

Love in John Donnes A Valediction Forbidding melancholy and Andrew Marvells To His coy MistressJohn Donnes A Valediction Forbidding grieve and Andrew Marvells To His Coy Mistress both talk about bed but has different views about it, one talks about material chouse and the early(a) talks about spiritual love. John Donnes A Valediction Forbidding Mourning compared love to a circle while Andrew Marvels To His Coy Mistress compared love to a straight line. Both rimes are act of persuasions. A Valediction Forbidding Mourning is persuading the reader that true love is eternal while To His Coy Mistress the speaker is persuading the mistress to make passionate sex with him. Therefore, with all of these similarities and differences, its commendable to compare the two works of literature. A Valediction Forbidding Mourning has a subtle theme of religion in itself particularly, Christianity in relation to life after death. The main theme of the poem is true love leave behind continue on, even after death. Lines one through two illustrate the notion of afterlife. As virtuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their souls to go... Essentially, it implies that we bugger off souls, and souls are the immortal part of men (human beings). John Donnes notion that we have souls and theres life after death are presumably based on his Christian beliefs. Donne was born in England and raised by a prosperous Roman Catholic family. At the age of 42, Donne accepted ordination in the Angelican Church. He, then, became and earned a reputation as one of the greatest preachers (Abcarian and Klotz 1121). Donne was 60 years of age when he wrote the poem presumably, he was still a preacher at the time. Therefore, his poem can be suggested as... ...ourning. Although the main central theme of the poems were directly opposite of each other, we can relate that physical love and spiritual love has a connection to each other. Physical love can turn to spiritual love or perhaps spiritual lo ve can turn to physical love. At one point or another, we have experienced both physical and spiritual love. On the surface, we can say that spiritual love is a cut above physical love. However, its hypocritical to say that we do not come into contact with emotions such as desire or lust. Therefore, physical love is at the same level as spiritual love. It is merely difficult to admit that we do experience lust because it is not something to be proud about. companionable convention dictates that we should not feel lust. Moreover, lust is one of the seven sins. However, lust is a valid emotion that every one experience once in a while.