Forbidding Mourning

John Donne's poem, "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" is a poem of one lover speaking to the other about death. To explain the lover's ideas and beliefs of death, Donne using altering stanzas dealing with the ideas, actions, and beliefs of the general public, and the ideas, actions, and beliefs of the lovers. The first stanza is posed to be speaking about people in general, and how as someone passes away, they may be at peace with themselves, however their friends, and those that care about him/her, can either be at peace with the death as well and accept it, or can be in denial, and mad or depressed. Donne uses this to introduce the situation of the lovers, as one lover tells the other that in their death situation, they should accept the situation, and be at peace with the death of the other. The next two stanzas are once again in general. The first stanza in this is:

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

I took this to be taken as the general view of death. Donne relates how men fear the unknown, and make up meaning and explanations for it, however the unknown is not necessarily bad or evil. This is just like death, many view it to be bad, and a tragedy, however simply because it is unknown does not make it a bad thing.
The second stanza in this series of general is used to describe the difference between normal lover's love, and their love. The speaker compares how regular lovers can't admit the death of their lover, or the "death" of their love, because they need it. The speaker however, says that their love is above that of regular love, and it is not the physical sense that is important, but that they are connected in their very being and mind. The speaker further goes on to explain (in the rest of the stanzas) that very difference. About how unlike other lover's, the separation that their souls endure because of the death is a new adventure, it strengthens their love, and their souls.