their mother. In 1621 Donne was appointed Dean of St. Paul's, a post which he held until his death on March 31, 1631.
             A Valediction Forbidding Mourning is one of Donne's most infamous poems he has written. It was written in iambic tetrameter, in four-lined stanzas with an ABAB rhyme scheme. The literary devices used in this poem were kennings, similes and metaphors. The theme surrounded the ideas of spiritual love and reassurance of love, which was what the speaker was trying to prove throughout the writing. The author's aim was to show his lover that he was still going to love her when he returned from his trip. He wrote the poem to reassure his lover that he would not forget them while he was gone. The speaker of this poem could have been anyone who had a lover and was going on a trip without them. Th
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