"A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" is a valedictory poem in nine stanzas using description and imagery to portray two souls intimately coupled. It is remarkable for the way in which it moves from one conceit to another, from the opening the parting of two lovers is likened to the soul of a good man leaving him at the moment of death. In the first two stanzas Donne likens the parting to something as difficult to perceive as the exact moment of death; within stanza three Donne likens the effects produced by their parting to the upheaval caused by earth or Ptolemaic astronomy, similarly "Hawk Roosting" and "Mushrooms" all have a common theme of earthly movements - inheriting the earth, watching over the earth or being admits the earths activities. Superficially, Donne expressed the idea that the heavens are composed of various spheres enclosing each other and the earth at...