I need help with English poetry homework!!?

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Tyler

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This is an extended metaphor and i have no clue on what it means. I have to give a presentation on what this means. And i cant figure anything out, it is from 'A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne.

Moving of th' earth brings harms and fears
Men reckon what it did and meant;
But trepidation if the spheres,
Though greater far, is innocent.

Dull sublunary lovers' love
(Whose soul is sense) cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
Those things which elemented it.




This makes no sense to me..ill give 5 stars to whoever gives me the best answer.
 
Extended metaphors and similes continue on with the comparison. For instance a sentence to follow the simile could read "It wrinkled like foil when the wind blew" The metaphor could read "As the wind blew the foil wrinkled."

here you go Ty!
 
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