Which of the following comes closest to what is meant by the last line of "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"? a. The beloved makes the speaker feel like a complete person. c. The beloved's constancy will ensure that the speaker returns home. b. The speaker sees only repetition and boredom in this relationship. d. The beloved holds the speaker back from things he wants and needs to do.

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Philip Gray

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3 March, 06:19

Which of the following comes closest to what is meant by the last line of "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"? a. The beloved makes the speaker feel like a complete person. c. The beloved's constancy will ensure that the speaker returns home. b. The speaker sees only repetition and boredom in this relationship. d. The beloved holds the speaker back from things he wants and needs to do.

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Jaxon Madden · Answer 1

a. The beloved makes the speaker feel like a complete person.

Explanation:

The poem "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne is about a lover's love and undying faithfulness for his love, even if there be any distance between them. This theme of love, the microcosmic part of the world, all shows how the poet sees the love between two people as worlds of their world.

The last line of the poem reads-

And makes me end where I begun.

This shows how the lover deems his beloved to provide the wholeness in his life, being there for him at all times. This last line can best mean to imply that the beloved makes the speaker feel like a complete person.