He then refers to spiritual love as the purer and stronger form of love which can be seen in Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, which subsequently implies that spiritual love is the higher form of love. However, in The Ecstasy Donne says that the uniting of the souls in spiritual love can only be attained through a uniting of the bodies, this idea somewhat contradicts the points Donne makes about love in To His Mistress Going to Bed and Valediction: Forbidding Mourning. ... In contrast with To His Mistress Going to Bed is Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, in which Donne greatly emphasizes th...

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