In "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning", John Donne describes a perfect and unchangeable love between two people. Throughout the poem he skillfully compares the love of the speaker and his lady to things that seem completely different to the love between them. Aside from metaphors and similes, Donne conveys double-meanings by using connotation and denotation.
To understand the meaning of the poem you must first know the denotive meanings of the vocabulary. In the title "valediction" is the act of bidding farewell. Mourning is grieving or lamenting a loss. In line 7 "profanation" means unr…
