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.
Moving of the earth brings harms and fears,
Men reckon what it did and meant;
But trepidation of the spheres,
Though greater far, is innocent.
Dull sublunary lovers' love
(Whose soul is sense) cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
Those things which elemented it.
But we, by a love so much refined
That our selves know not what it is,
Inter-assured of the mind,
Care less, eyes, lips, and hands to miss.
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;
And though it in the center sit,
Yet when the other far doth roam,
It leans, and hearkens after it,
And grows erect, as that comes home.
Such wilt thou be to me, who must,
Like the other foot, obliquely run;
Thy firmness makes my circle just,
And makes me end where I begun.
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"Moving of the earth brings harms and fears, Men reckon what it did and meant; But trepidation of the spheres,"
ReplyDelete>The first quote chosen shows that this poem deals with the metaphysical theme because it tells the imagery of an earthquake that one can only get from real life. The use of words like "trepidation" could cause both a detonated and cannonaded definition. While the actually definition of the word is tremulous movement" one could get the emotion of what it feels like after an earthquake.
"Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it."
>While this quotes represents another characterization of a metaphysical poetry which is love. This shows love because it shows the idea do lover's that are dull can't handle a separation. This is true because a separation for them removes the items the removes their love for each other. This is analyzing a type of love between dull lovers and Metaphysical poetry, like stated before, has characteristics of love and also analyzing the different aspects of love
Leilani Jefferson
Period 2