Renaissance+Period


 * The Renaissance Period (1500-1650)
 * Books became less expensive and literacy rates rose, creating a surge in available literature and a more expansive reading audience.
 * Main authors
 * William Shakespeare
 * "Macbeth"
 * Christopher Marlowe
 * "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"
 * Sir Walter Raleigh
 * "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd"
 * John Donne
 * "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning"
 * Robert Herrick
 * "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"
 * Andrew Marvell
 * "To His Coy Mistress"
 * John Milton
 * "When I Consider How My Light is Spent"
 * Edmund Spencer
 * Main Ideas
 * Humanism
 * Carpe Diem
 * Moral Purity
 * Free will
 * Search for truth
 * Pastoral
 * Idealized version of farm life

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning BY JOHN DONNE 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 th' 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 <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">Absence, because it doth remove <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">Those things which elemented it. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">But we by a love so much refined, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">That our selves know not what it is, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">Inter-assured of the mind, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">Care less, eyes, lips, and hands to miss. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">Our two souls therefore, which are one, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">Though I must go, endure not yet <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">A breach, but an expansion, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">Like gold to airy thinness beat. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">If they be two, they are two so <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">As stiff twin compasses are two; <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">To move, but doth, if the other do. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">And though it in the center sit, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">Yet when the other far doth roam, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">It leans and hearkens after it, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">And grows erect, as that comes home. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">Such wilt thou be to me, who must, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">Like th' other foot, obliquely run; <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">Thy firmness makes my circle just, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: center;">And makes me end where I begun.

"A Valediction Forbidding Morning" is a loving exchange of parting words between the narrator, a man soo to embark on a lengthy voyage, and his wife. The narrator commits literary conceit to emphasis the strength of his relationship with his wife by comparing the love they share with a plethora of other things that bear no resembles to their relationship, such as dying soldiers parting from their friends or twin compasses. The wide range of metaphors shows how far spread the narrator believes the prominence of the love he and his wife share for each other is and how, regardless of where he is positioned on this Earth, his love for her will be present and unwavering.

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