Read the following lines from John Donne’s seventeenth-century poem "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" carefully before choosing your answer:
If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two;
Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if the other do.
And though it in the center sit,
Yet when the other far doth roam,
It leans and hearkens after it,
And grows erect, as that comes home.
Such wilt thou be to me, who must,
Like th' other foot, obliquely run;
Thy firmness makes my circle just,
And makes me end where I begun.
In the passage, how does the speaker use the conceit of the "stiff twin compasses" to describe the connection between the speaker and the beloved?
- AIt suggests that the physical distance between them will inevitably cause their relationship to become rigid and mechanical.
- BIt reveals a shift in tone from mournful acceptance to bitter resentment over the speaker’s forced departure.
- It shows that the beloved’s constancy provides a centering stability that enables the speaker’s eventual return.Cevap
- DIt emphasizes the literal tools of navigation and draftsmanship that the speaker must use while traveling abroad.
- EIt reflects the poet’s personal, autobiographical struggle to reconcile his interest in geometry with his emotional grief.
Cevap
It shows that the beloved’s constancy provides a centering stability that enables the speaker’s eventual return.
The conceit of the twin compasses compares the two lovers' souls to the two feet of a drawing compass. The beloved is the 'fixed foot' in the center, and the speaker is the outer foot that travels. The speaker asserts that the beloved’s 'firmness' (constancy and stability) ensures the path remains true ('makes my circle just') and enables the speaker to return home safely. This directly matches the option detailing how the beloved's constancy provides a centering stability that enables the speaker's return.
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Extended Metaphors and Conceits
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