Explanation of John Donne's "Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" (Part 2/3)

Here are the links to the other videos in the series:

Part 1: https://youtu.be/WUprtjcYieY
Part 3: https://youtu.be/L0B09cai4Eo

John Donne's poem "Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" is a beautiful example of metaphysical poetry. In part 2 of our series we'll explain the middle stanzas, and we'll pay special attention to the shift from the Ptolemaic model of the universe to the Copernican one.

You can find the complete poem here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44131/a-valediction-forbidding-mourning

This lesson is part of a series of tutorials on English literature: https://natureofwriting.com/courses/english-literature/lessons/john-donne/topic/a-valediction-forbidding-mourning/

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