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Poetry in farewell party6/1/2023 Donne imagines the object of his affection as the still foot of a compass, making his circles true: And though it in the centre sit,įarewell poems can carry with them meditations on mortality, as poets come to realize that each earthly farewell is a preparation for the final farewell. But, as John Donne astutely realized in his poem "A Valediction of Forbidden Mourning," the very act of bidding something goodbye connects the poet intimately to the object of the poem. As in odes, the object admired (and in this case missed) can range from the sublime to the ridiculous. Farewell poems take an astounding variety of forms: poets have found it necessary, over the ages, to say goodbye not only to lovers, friends, and family, but also to their youth, the courtly life, the twentieth century, a rhinoceros, traffic, even the fairies of England.
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