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students today we are going to explore a
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beautiful poem called a valediction
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forbidding morning by John Dawn John
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Dawn was an English poet who lived a
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long time ago from 1572 to
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1631 Dawn is famous for writing poems
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about love death and deep thoughts this
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poem is special because it talks about
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love in a very unique way it is not just
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about feelings but about a strong
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connection between two people this video
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covers the explanation and Analysis of a
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valediction forbidding morning by John
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Dawn first let me tell you what a
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valediction means the word valediction
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comes from Latin it means saying goodbye
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but it is not a sad goodbye the word
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forbidding means stopping or not
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allowing mourning means crying or
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feeling sad especially when someone dies
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leaves so the title A valediction
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forbidding morning means saying goodbye
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sadness Don wrote this poem for his wife
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an he had to travel and leave her behind
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he wanted her to stay strong and not cry
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this is the background of the poem
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knowing this helps us understand why Don
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wrote it explanation of a valediction
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forbidding mourning by John Dawn as
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virtuous men pass mildly away and
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Whisper to their souls to go whilst some
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of their sad friends do say the breath
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goes now and some say no virtuous men
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means good honest people pass mildly
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away a means they die quietly they do
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not fight or make noise when they die
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Don says they've whisper to their souls
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to go this means they softly tell their
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souls to leave their bodies a soul is
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the part of a person that lives inside
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like their Spirit when someone dies
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people believe the soul leaves the body
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whila means while sad friends are the
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people who love these virtuous men these
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friends are watching them die some
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friends say the breath goes now this
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means they think the person is dying
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because they stop breathing but other
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friends say no they think the person is
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still alive Dawn starts the poem with
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death he wants to compare death to his
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goodbye when good people die they are
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Don wants his goodbye to be calm
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too he is telling his wife not to be sad
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when he leaves the theme Here is death
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calmness a theme is the main idea in a
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poem Don uses death as a symbol a symbol
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is something that stands for something
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else death symbolizes his leaving he
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says leaving is not bad just like death
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is not bad for virtuous men the literary
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device here is a simil
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a simile Compares two things using like
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or as Dawn Compares his goodbye to a
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peaceful death the structure is simple
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it has four lines this is called a
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quatrain each line has a rhythm like
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music this Rhythm keeps the poem
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flowing so let us melt and make no noise
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no tear floods nor sests move T
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profanation of our joys to tell the Le
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our love so connects this stanza to the
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first one Don says let us melt melt a
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means to come together quietly like two
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things blending he is talking to his
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wife he wants their goodbye to be silent
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make no noise means do not cry or shout
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tear floods means lots of Tears sists a
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means loud size Don is telling his wife
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to not cry a lot or sigh loudly on his
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depart arure t means it would be
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profanation means ruining something holy
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the poet says that crying would ruin
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their happy love the word le and means
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Ordinary People Don says their love is
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special telling normal people about it
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would make it less sacred in this stanza
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Don tells his wife to stay quiet when he
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leaves he thinks their love is too big
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for Tears the poet says that they should
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part silently because their love is Holy
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the theme is love and
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separation the symbol is in melt it
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shows their souls joining not breaking
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apart a literary device is metaphor a
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metaphor Compares two unlike things tear
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metaphors tears are not really a flood
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but they feel big size are not a storm
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but they sound strong this stanza is
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also a quatrain with four lines
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the structure keeps the poem steady
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moving of th Earth brings harms and
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fears men reckon what it did and meant
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but trepidation of the Spheres though
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greater far is innocent moving of th
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earthquakes th is short for the
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earthquakes scare people men Reen means
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people think hard they wonder what the
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earthquake did and why it happened
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trepidation of the Spheres means the
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movement of stars and
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planets long ago people thought the
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stars and planets moved in circles
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called spheres it is a big movement but
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no one sees it Greater fari means the
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movement is bigger than an earthquake
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Dawn Compares two things earthquakes are
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small but scary the shaking of the
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heavens stars and planets is big but
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harmless he says his leaving is like the
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heavens it is a big change but it does
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not hurt their love the theme is love
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strength the symbol is the
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Spheres they show a huge perfect love a
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contrast contrast shows
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differences Dawn contrasts earthquakes
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with the Spheres the structure is still
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a quatrain keeping the poem
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organized dull sublunary lovers love
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whose soul is sense cannot admit absent
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because it doth remove those things
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which element it sublunary means under
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the moon long ago people thought
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everything under the moon
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changed so sublunary lovers are normal
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lovers their love is not special whose
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soul is sense means their love is based
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on the body like touch or sight Don says
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his love is better than normal love
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normal love is weak his love is strong
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even when he is far away the poet says
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weak love fails when people are apart in
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this stanza the theme is true love
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versus weak love the symbol is
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sublunary it shows ordinary changing
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love a literary device is
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parenthesis the line whose soul is sense
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Brackets it adds extra
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information the structure stays a
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quatrain but we bu a love so much
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refined that our elves know not what it
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is ENT aurt of the Mind care less eyes
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lips and hands to miss refined means
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pure Dawn says their love is special and
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pure ourselves know not what it is means
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they cannot explain it because it is too
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deep inter Aur of the Mind means their
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minds trust each other care less means
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they do not worry eyes lips and hands to
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miss means they do not need to see kiss
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or touch this stanza shows Don's Point
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their love is not about the body it is
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about the mind and soul their love is
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pure and does not need physical things
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the theme is spiritual love the symbol
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is refined it shows perfect love the
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structure is a quatrain our two Souls
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therefore which are one though I must go
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endure not yet a breach but an expans
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like gold to Airy thinness beat our two
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Souls means Dawn and his wife's Spirits
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which are one means they are joined
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endure not yet means they do not suffer
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a breach means a break but he says it is
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expansion like gold to Airy thinness
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beat means like gold stretched thin gold
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is a metal people can hammer it into a
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thin sheet it does not break but
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spreads in this stanza Don says leaving
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makes their love grow not end the poet
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says their souls stay connected even
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when apart the theme is Unity the symbol
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is gold gold shows strong lasting love
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the literary device is
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simil like gold Compares their love to
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Gold the structure is a
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quatrain if they be to they are too so
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as stiff twin Es are two thy Soul the
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fixed foot makes no show to move but do
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if the other do if they be two a means
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if their souls are separate as stiff
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twin compasses are two a means like a
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compass a compass is a tool for drawing
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circles it has two legs one leg stays
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still the other moves thy soul is his
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wife's Soul the fixed foot means the
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still leg of a compass da says their
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compass his wife stays home and he
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travels but they are still connected the
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poet says their souls work together like
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a compass the theme is connection and
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the symbol is the compass it shows unity
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and balance the literary device is
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conceit the compass is their love the
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quatrain and though it in the center sit
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yet when the other far doth roam it
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leans and hearkens after it and grows
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erect as that comes home it in the
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center sit means his wife's Soul stays
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still the other far doth roam means Dawn
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travels far it leans and hearkens after
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it means her soul listens and follows
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him hearkens it means listens carefully
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grows erect means stand straight as that
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comes home it means when Dawn Returns
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the sza shows that Anne's Soul waits for
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him when he comes back it is Happy the
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poet says her soul stays connected and
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welcomes him back the theme is
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loyalty the symbol is the compass again
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it shows her steady love the literary
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device is imagery imagery paints a
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picture with words we see the compass
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leaning the structure is a
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quatrain such wilt thou be to me who
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like th other foot obliquely run thy
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firmness makes my circle just and makes
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me end where I begun such wilt thou be
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to me it means this is how his wife is
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who must it means dawn has to go like th
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other foot obliquely run I means he
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moves like the compass's moving leg
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obliquely I means not straight thy
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firmness means her strength makes my
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circle just means she keeps his path
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a circle is round and complete makes me
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end where I begun means he returns to
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her in this stanza the poet says that
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her love guides him back home she keeps
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their love complete the theme is eternal
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love the symbol is the circle it shows
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Endless Love the literary device is
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metaphor the circle is their Journey the
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structure is a quatrain the poem ends
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where it started like a circle
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conclusion an explanation and Analysis
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of a valediction forbidding mourning by
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John Dawn reveals that the poem has nine
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stanas each has four lines this is a
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regular structure it keeps the poem
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steady like their love Don tells his
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wife not to cry when he leaves their
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love is strong and special it grows even
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when they are apart it is like gold or a
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they stay connected and complete each
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other the poem was written when John
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Dawn traveled and left his wife he wrote
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this to comfort her the themes are love
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death separation unity and strength
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symbols are death gold spheres and the
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compass literary devices are similes
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metaphors conceits contrast and imagery
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they make the poem beautiful and deep
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thank you for watching this video on
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explan explation and Analysis of a
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valediction forbidding Warning by John
