sweetest Love I do not go by John Donne

                   Sweetest Love I do not go by John Donne

John Donne’s song ‘s with the title sweetest love I do not go deals with of love. The poet is addressed by the lover to his beloved it present before us the scene of parting between the lover and his beloved.

The song opens with the lovers request to his beloved that he is going away from her not because he is tired of her or because of hope that he will be able to find out a better companion for himself. He tries to convince her that at last parting is bound to be there and so he would prefer an artificial parting by death and not real parting by death and not real parting by forgetting her forever. The lover is firm in his belief that death cannot cause parting between him and his beloved. The lover gives an example of the sun. The sun which last night went away comes back today morning though that sun has neither desire nor sense to come back. Comparing himself with the sun, the lover mention but he has both desire and sense and so he would comeback at the earliest just like that sun. His path is shorter than of the sun and he would make a speedy journey to come back to his beloved. His wings are his desire to meet her again and so he would come back.

In the next stanza the lover speaks about how helpless mankind is. Thought mankind considers himself very powerful, he cannot add one hour more to his happy days of life. Equally week is that is cannot bring back a happy time which has already gone from his life. At the most man can remembered that happy past. The lover would like to be morally supported by his beloved in fighting out this parting between him and her.

The lover makes and humble request to his beloved not to sigh and weep because when she sighs and weeps, his soul and blood which are in the beloved, come out. If she truly loves him, her sighs and tears must stop because she has no right to waste his soul and blood.

The concluding stanza of the poem is the lovers request to his beloved. She should not think anything sad or bad because destiny plays it’s role. So far they leaved together and after death they would sleeps side by side in their graves. The lovers wants to assure her that nothing can cause parting between him and his beloved.