A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
from The Poetry Fix Hosted by Erika Kyba
Does absence make the heart grow fonder? John Donne, our poet who believes so strongly in the united souls of lovers, asks himself what happens to this harmony when the lovers are separated. Join Erika Kyba for a reading and analysis of this epic love poem.
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