In the poem A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, John puts in each verse, his insights on the condition of each human of love and the relation to the soul through the conceit, of drawing compasses. The author brings the reader to an understanding of separation of the body and soul in the first stanza. It seems that the soul is not part of the body. The soul is connected to the body until death then after death the soul leaves the body. When the author uses "whisper" in the poem he is suggesting that the body and soul can be one with each other. Separation of body and soul is a must and it is a concept to the poem as it progresses. The writer had described the two souls of the lovers being mixed and that the bodies are separate. In line 21 there is a motif which is used through the entire poem. "Our two souls therefore, which are one, / though I must go, endure not yet / A breach, but an expansion. Donne's makes it clear that cannot separate the lovers because of the soul, which is separated from the body. This kind of love lives on forever and does not die. .
The author use the word expansion which is explained by the analogy of compasses and mixing is made by comparisons to liquid. The author uses a metaphor to make clear his view of "the soul". He state that this could be melted, from a liquid type which made sounds when moved. However the sound made no noise. This is metaphor which creates a visual picture of a flow and mixing. This is something that cannot be separated. The silence makes it .
known that the souls do not use speech "sigh-tempests", used in line 6, which makes their love known for each other.
There is an apparent conflict because in the opening stanza that author states that the soul can communicate with speech. The author states that the body can speak to the soul, two souls do not need to say anything for their love to be shown. In line 9 where it mentions that the earth moves added to the reader's knowledge of the lover's relationship by adding details about how strong their love was.