An Interesting Outlook

In A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, John Donne writes through the perspective of a dying man.  The man tells his love to not mourn because of his death.  He says that death is how we will grow, and they will never truly be apart if they truly love each other.  He said, "Our two souls therefore, which are one, though I must go, endure not yet a breach, but an expansion, like gold to airy thinness beat," (Donne, 802).  He says they can only be separated by there own power.  It will be difficult to maintain this state of mind, with the friends being sad constantly.  But the man strongly advises the woman to think of death as an advancement of life.  It is simply a means of waiting until the woman meets her fate, and they are united again.  The man may not be excited about death, but he is able to believe it will be a good thing.  He eventually leaves his love in his current life, and advances onto the next stage of existence.