RC 2 OCT 27

As virtuous men pass mildly away,

And whisper to their souls to go,
Whilst some of their sad friends do say,
"Now his breath goes," and some say, "No."

So let us melt, and make no noise,
No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move;
T'were profanation of our joys
To tell the laity our love.

Moving of th'earth brings harms and fears;
Men reckon what it did and meant;
But trepidation of the spheres,
Though greater far, is innocent.

Dull sublunary lovers' love
""Whose soul is sense""cannot admit
Of absence, 'cause it doth remove
The things which elemented it.

But we by a love so much refined,
That ourselves know not what it is,
Inter-assurèd of the mind,
Care less, eyes, lips and hands to miss.

Our two souls therefore, which are one,
Though I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion,
Like gold to aery thinness beat.

If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two;
Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if th' other do.

And though it in the centre sit,
Yet when the other far doth roam,
It leans, and hearkens after it,
And grows erect, as that comes home.

Such wilt thou be to me, who must,
Like th' other foot, obliquely run;
Thy firmness makes my circle just,
And makes me end where I begun.

1 After reading the poem, we can say that the poem reads like a:

love note.
prayer.
farewell speech.
condolence note.

2


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From the fifth stanza what can we conclude about the kind of love that
the poet and his beloved profess?

Their love for each other is actually a carnal desire.
Their love is so intense that they cannot bear even a moment's separation.
They haven't yet understood the true meaning of love and are in the
search for it.
Their sublime love has elevated their minds and is strong enough to
endure separation.



3


How does the poet console his lady love in the sixth stanza?

She should treat their separation as a period of sadness and dejection.
She should try to derive happiness from the beauty around her.
She should look at this seperation as an extension of their love.
Instead of mourning for this end of their love, she should go on with her life.