Almost every analysis of “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” comes to the same conclusion as seeing the poem as a whole. They see Donne’s theme as an appreciation towards a love that holds its strength even through separation. Most also recognize the poem’s equal relation to body and soul. Although, most of the criticisms argue that the poem contains the use of sexual ambiguity, the paths diverge on where and how it is used. …showed first 75 words of 2064 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2064 total…souls. The ideas from one critic continue along to another in a cycle which both reinforces older ideas and changes some of those ideas to allow the new critic to reinvent them; love, which is fully embedded in this cycle, continues to change as the humans within them change, but it will always be around, as love "makes my circle just, and makes me end where I begun" (Norton 1076). This essay is Done, John Donne.