A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
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 th’ 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.
Based on the text above: In this excerpt from A Valediction Forbidding Mourning, choose the response that best explains the meaning of the metaphor “As stiff twin compasses are two, thy soul the fixed foot, makes no show, to move, but doth, if th’ other do”
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Before heading out to sea, they gave each other a compass to ensure their safe return.
Though they are separate, their souls are connected, so the further apart they are physically, the more they will feel a pull towards one another.
The man would hold onto the woman’s foot, so as not to get lost on his ventures.
When separated by distance, the magnetic pull of the North Star on the compass would attract them back to one another.