Sweetest love I do not goe summary

 

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Sweetest love I do not goe

Short summary of this poem

This poem was written by Donne on the occasion of his leaving for Germany. He wrote it to console his wife and it is one of his simplest poems. He tells his wife that he loves her and will return soon. So she should not sigh and shed tears because it will make his voyage dangerous. He says her sighs are like wind on the high seas. Her tears are like rain. He tells her that she does not love him, as she says she does, if she wastes his life in her love.

Long summary of this poem

The poet is going to Germany leaving his wife behind. She is very sad to part with him. He consoles his wife. He says, “Sweetest love, I’m not going because I’m tired of you, nor in the hope that I’ll find a better love out there, but since I will eventually die, it’s best to amuse myself by dying feigned deaths.

Last night the sun went down and yet he’s here again today. He’s got no desire or feeling like me, nor half as short a journey, so don’t worry about me, but please believe I’ll make quicker journeys because I’ve got more incentives than him.

Oh how feeble man’s power is, that if good luck happens he can’t add another hour or recall a lost one. But when bad luck comes, we strengthen it, lengthen it and beautify it, so that it marches over us.

When you sigh, you don’t sigh air, you sigh my soul away; when you weep, both kind and cruel, my life’s blood decays. It can’t be true that you love me, like you say, if you, who is the better of me, lay waste my life in yours.

Don’t let your prophetic heart foresee me ill in case destiny takes your place and fulfills your fears; instead think of us as merely turned aside to sleep. Those who keep one another’s memory alive are never parted.”

By Manoj Sir