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)
Donne is using irony to
trivialize his love for his
wife.
Donne is using a
conceit to describe the
love between him and
his wife.
Donne is using an
understatement to
dismiss the love his
wife has for him.
Donne is using
sarcasm to describe
the love between him
and his wife.