A sheet of gold is beaten, thus becoming simultaneously thinner and broader.
The second stanza of A Valediction Forbidding mourning states intense displays of emotions in that stanza.
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning is a poem by John Donne.
a conceit
They do not struggle against it. heaven
It is being beaten into a very thin sheet.
It is being beaten into a very thin sheet.
In A Valediction Forbidding Mourning the comparison of lovers souls to a drafting compass is an example of a conceit.
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
A break separation doesnt break our love, it increases it
"A Valediction Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne is written in iambic tetrameter, with each line consisting of four metrical feet.
The gold is being beaten into a very thin sheet; this is a metaphor for the lovers' parting as it is simultaneously a separation and an expansion.
They do not struggle against it. Several people keep watch at their friend's deathbed.