【正确答案】正确答案：In this poem, the speaker explains that he is forced to spend time apart from his lover, but before he leaves, he tells her that their farewell should not be the occasion for mourning and sorrow. The nine stanzas of this poem are quite simple compared to most of Donne"s poems, which utilize strange metrical patterns overlaid jarringly on regular rhyme schemes. Here, each four-line stanza is quite unadorned, with an abab rhyme scheme and an iambic tetrameter meter. Besides its simple form, the poem might also be one of Donne"s simplest poems and most direct statement of his ideal of spiritual love. Here, anticipating a physical separation from his beloved, he invokes the nature of that spiritual love to ward off the "tear-floods" and "sigh-tempests" that might otherwise attend on their farewell. The poem is essentially a sequence of metaphors and comparisons, each describing a way of looking at their separation that will help them to avoid the mourning forbidden by the poem"s title. First, the speaker says that their farewell should be as mild as the uncomplaining deaths of virtuous men, because to weep would be "profanation of our joys". Next, the speaker compares harmful "Moving of th" earth" to innocent " trepidation of the spheres," equating the first with " dull sublunary lovers" love" and the second with their love, " Inter-assured of the mind". Like the rumbling earth, the dull sublunary lovers are all physical, unable to experience separation without losing the sensation that comprises and sustains their love. But the spiritual lovers " Care less, eyes, lips, and hands to miss, " because, like the trepidation of the spheres, their love is not wholly physical. Moreover, like the trepidation of the spheres, their movement will not have the harmful consequences of an earthquake. The speaker then declares that, since the lovers" two souls are one, his departure will simply expand the area of their unified soul, rather than cause a rift between them. If, however, their souls are "two" instead of "one" , they are as the feet of a drafter"s compass, connected with the center foot fixing the orbit of the outer foot and helping it to describe a perfect circle. The compass(the instrument used for drawing circles)is one of Donne"s most famous metaphors, and it is the perfect image to encapsulate the values of Donne"s spiritual love, which is balanced, symmetrical, intellectual, serious, and beautiful in its polished simplicity. Like many of Donne"s love poems, A Valediction; Forbidding Mourning creates a dichotomy between the common love of the everyday world and the uncommon love of the speaker. Here, the speaker claims that to tell " the laity," or the common people, his love would be to profane its sacred nature, and he is clearly contemptuous of the dull sublunary love of other lovers. The effect of this dichotomy is to create a kind of emotional aristocracy that is similar in form to the political aristocracy with which Donne has had painfully bad luck throughout his life and which he commented upon in poems, such as The Canonization.