This poem is in form of song by
Donne deals with the theme of love. The poet is addressed by the lover to his
beloved. It presents before us the scene of parting between the lover and his
beloved.
The song opens with the lover’s request
to his beloved that he is going away from her not because he is tired of her or
because of the hope that he will be able to find out a better companion for
himself, he tries to convince her that at last parting is bound to be there and
so he would prefer an artificial parting by death and not real parting by
forgetting her forever. The lover is the firm in his belief that death can’t
cause parting between him and his beloved.
The lover gives an example of Sun which last night went away comes back today morning, thought that
sun has neither desire nor sense to come back. Comparing himself with the sun,
the lover mentions that he has both desire and sense and so he would come back
at the earliest just like that sun, his path is shorter than of the sun and
would make a speedy journey to come back to his beloved. His wings are his
desire to meet her again and so he would come back.
Further, lover speaks about how helpless mankind is. Though man consider
himself very powerful, he can’t add one
hour more to his happy days of the life. Equally weak man is that he can’t
bring back a happy time which has already gone from his life. At the most man
can remember that past. The lover make humble request to her beloved not to
sigh and weep because when she sighs and weeps , his soul and blood which are
in beloved come out. If she truly loves him, her sigh and tears must stop
because she has no right to waste his soul and blood.
The concluding part of the song is the
lover’s request to his beloved that she should not think anything sad or bad
because destiny plays its role. So, for they lived together and after death
they would sleep side by side in their grave. The lover wants to assure her
that nothing can cause parting between him and his beloved.
No comments:
Post a Comment