Read this excerpt from John Donne's "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning."
"If they are 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."
Which of these is the best interpretation of this passage?
(1 point)
1. Donne is using irony to trivialize his love for his wife.
2. Donne is using a conceit to describe the love between him and his wife.
3. Donne is using an understatement to dismiss the love his wife has for him
4. Donne is using sarcasm to describe the love between him and his wife.
The best interpretation of this passage is:
2. Donne is using a conceit to describe the love between him and his wife.