What Does Dull Sublunary Lovers Mean?
What Does Dull Sublunary Lovers Mean? What does dull sublunary lovers mean? In the fourth stanza of the poem, Donne characterizes this more limited type of love as earthly and impermanent: “Dull sublunary lovers’ love / (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit / Absence.” The adjective “sublunary” means beneath the moon, of the Earth and