Donne's 'A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning' and Keats's 'Ode to Autumn'

What this note covers

1. Two kinds of loss: separation and a season ending
2. Donne's argument against mourning: conceits as reassurance
3. Keats's ode: ripeness, stillness and an ode without an invocation
4. Metaphysical argument versus Romantic sensory acceptance
5. Worked example: how each poem denies 'loss' its usual register
6. Contexts behind the two strategies
7. How this pairing is examined and what a top response shows

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