The Spherical Image as the Central Paradox in Valediction: for Weeping

The Spherical Image as the Central puzzle in parting salutation for Weeping In John Donnes A Valediction for Weeping, the speaker consoles his lover in the beginning leaving on a ocean voyage and begs her not to cry. Crying, the speaker tells his lover this verse at the docks before he boards his ship going abroad. Donne uses a spherical characterization as the central metaphor in his poesy. When Donne uses irony, paradox, and hyperbole including the use of round images much(prenominal) as coins, globes, and crying he strengthens the spherical conceit. By comparing 2 seeming opposites like tears and love as his conceit, Donne uses the spherical image as the central paradox in A Valediction Of Weeping. Donne opens the poem with the speaker crying while talking to his lover before his press release abroad. His first spherical images are in the first stanza, and they are tears and coins Let me pour forth My tears before thy face whilst I stay here, For thy face coins the m, and thy mould they bear, And by this specie they are manything worth, (1-4) both(prenominal) the coins and his tears have worth, literal and figurative values respectively. His tears descent from his face because he hurts for leaving, something no amount of coins can pay to alleviate. same(p) coins being stamped out of a sheet of metal, his tears are press from his eyes. Because water reflects her image and tears are made out of water, the stamp image has a double meaning too. The tears equal the lover. The mintage mentioned in line four has an expanded meaning. A set of touch coins is a mintage as is the set of the speakers tears, but the impression on the coin (the lovers face) can also be a mintage. ... ...he others death. (26) As they sigh, their sighs render wind which upsets the water. The rough water, on which the speaker is sailing, could drown him. Donnes mastery of comparing allows him to create an in-depth metaphor comparing spherical images to two lover s love. He uses some of the same images as he does in his other poems for example hallowed love and tears in The Canonization, spheres in A Valediction dismal Mourning and The Sun Rising, and two worlds becoming one in The Good-Morrow and A Valediction Forbidding Mourning. Also in the other valediction poem Donne includes the line No tear floods, nor sigh tempest move. (6) This idea is mentioned in A Valediction Of Weeping too. Donne uses the simple round images to symbolize a deeper meaning coupled with metaphor and paradox to create a difficult love poem.