Love in John Donnes A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning and Andrew Marv

go to bed in John Donnes A Valediction prohibition Mourning and Andrew Marvells To His coy prostituteJohn Donnes A Valediction Forbidding Mourning and Andrew Marvells To His coy Mistress both talk about love life but has various views about it, one talks about carnal love and the separate talks about spiritual love. John Donnes A Valediction Forbidding Mourning compared love to a circle while Andrew Marvels To His Coy Mistress compared love to a straight line. Both poems are act of persuasions. A Valediction Forbidding Mourning is persuading the reader that true love is gross(a) while To His Coy Mistress the speaker is persuading the mistress to make ablaze sex with him. Therefore, with all of these similarities and differences, its commendable to compare the two works of literature. A Valediction Forbidding Mourning has a subtle approximation of piety in itself particularly, Christianity in relation to life later on death. The main theme of the poem is true love will cont inue on, even after(prenominal) death. Lines one through two illustrate the notion of afterlife. As pure men pass mildly away, And whisper to their souls to go... Essentially, it implies that we have souls, and souls are the everlasting part of men (human beings). John Donnes notion that we have souls and theres life after death are presumably based on his Christian beliefs. Donne was born(p) in England and raised by a prosperous Roman Catholic family. At the jump on of 42, Donne accepted ordination in the Angeli preserve Church. He, then, became and earned a reputation as one of the greatest preachers (Abcarian and Klotz 1121). Donne was 60 years of age when he wrote the poem presumably, he was still a preacher at the time. Therefore, his poem female genitalia be suggested as... ...ourning. Although the main central theme of the poems were straightaway opposite of each other, we can relate that physical love and spiritual love has a connection to each other. Physical love c an turn to spiritual love or perhaps spiritual love can turn to physical love. At one point or another, we have experienced both physical and spiritual love. On the surface, we can say that spiritual love is a cut above physical love. However, its hypocritical to say that we do not come into contact with emotions such(prenominal) as desire or lust. Therefore, physical love is at the alike level as spiritual love. It is merely difficult to admit that we do experience lust because it is not something to be proud about. Social convening dictates that we should not feel lust. Moreover, lust is one of the seven sins. However, lust is a valid emotion that every one experience once in a while.