In "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne, the speaker uses diction of nature and material to express his love for the woman whom he will temporary leaving. The departed lover beginning his poem by addressing the virtuous men, in which he is saying that even though virtuous men may be leaving, their souls will still be with the one they love. The lover uses metaphor of earthquake and the moon to express his love to his lover. The shaking of the earth "brings harms and fear," but it still cannot break their love. No matter where he goes nothing can break their love since their love is so pure that it is "innocent." Unlike their love, "sublunary lover's love" is not complete. Under the moon lovers cannot admits to one another when the other is missing. That these lovers are like the moon, constantly changes. The combination of the earth and moon expresses the departed lover's love; his love for her is not like the moon, it will always remain the same for her. His love is so strong that the strongest earthquake cannot break it. The lover uses gold to express that their "two souls are one" no matter how much it endure it will never break. Like gold string, the more you beat it, the more it will expand. He continues on connecting their love to a compass. He represented their love with the arrows in a compass, "though it in center sit, when the other far doth roam, it leans, and hearkens after it, and grows erect as that comes home." The lover tells the woman that no matter where he goes, he will always end up in the same place since she is where he supposes to be with. Ending the poem with a feels of completion, the departed lover tells the woman whom he love that his love for her will always be with her, since their love is a circle, it never end, it just keeps on going.
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