A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

To start off, I actually had great difficulty trying to understand the message given off in the poem "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne. The language used throughout the course of the poem made it difficult to comprehend the literal meaning. Along with the literal meaning being difficult to comprehend, the figurative meaning was also very hard to comprehend. For example, "'Twere profanation of our joys to tell the laity our love" (Donne, 7). But, from what I was able to understand from the poem was that the writer truly loved the person that he was writing about. It seems like he loves her, but yet he is leaving her and leaving behind his love for her. In line 22, he says "Though I must go" (Donne, 22). I do not really understand why he is leaving the love of his life in the poem. But, I am beginning to think that it is maybe because she does not feel the same way about him. I feel like the poem is not a typical love poem, since in the end, he leaves the love of his life.