A VALEDICTION: FORBIDDING MOURNING by John Donne

CRITICAL APPRECIATIONThis is a personal poem showing the pure love and devotion of the poet to his beloved. Some persons feel that the poem is addressed to his wife Anne More. The poet is about to leave in the end of 1611 for a short visit to France but this absence of a few weeks may not be taken as an occasion of separation and lamentation. The poet’s wife was in a bad state of health. The poet