A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
John Donne
What I noticed in this poem was a sense of spiritual love. When the speaker acknowledges that they will be forcibly going away, they say that this departure should not be of sadness and tears, because this makes "a virtuous man weak", but instead, of trust during their "expansion" (Donne, 801-802). The speaker also made the point that they and their love are entered into a love "much refined", that it is assured and affirmed by more that "eyes, lips, and hands to miss" (Donne, 802). The couple's love is defined by more than the love they share in the same space, but by the love between them that is "inter-assured of the mind." The entirety of the poem is centered around the couple's love that extends beyond the physical, that their connection is made up of much more that that of "dull sublunary lovers' love", and that they as a couple are stronger because of their ability to withstand physical absense. Their long-distance relationship is only distant in the sense that they're geographically apart. I think the speaker was trying to encourage their love that they would return and all would be as it was left, "thy firmness makes my circle just, and makes me end, where I begun."
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