Style+and+Format

//A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning// is broken up into four line stanzas. This allows for the breaking up of ideas so that the reader can take a moment during the pause to think about what has just been said. Each seperate stanza relates to one another, yet has its own slightly different topic that it addresses. The stanzas do infact reference and relate to one another but no two are talking about the same exact thing. For example the first two stanzas, the first is talking about what the friends and other people say when the speaker is leaving, yet the second stanza is the speaker talking to his lover telling her to not make a scene and just allow it to happen. Both are discussing the speaker's leaving but are discussing different aspects of the event. I think this allows for a more complete understanding of the poem and what is going on, as compared to putting the entire poem together and reading it as one continuous piece.