Answer:
The speaker explains that he is forced to spend time apart from his lover, but before he leaves, he tells her that their farewell should not be the occasion for mourning and sorrow. In the same way that virtuous men die mildly and without complaint, he says, so they should leave without “tear-floods” and “sigh-tempests,” for to publicly announce their feelings in such a way would profane their love. The speaker says that when the earth moves, it brings “harms and fears,” but when the spheres experience “trepidation,” though the impact is greater, it is also innocent. The love of “dull sublunary lovers” cannot survive separation, but it removes that which constitutes the love itself; but the love he shares with his beloved is so refined and “Inter-assured of the mind” that they need not worry about missing “eyes, lips, and hands.”
Though he must go, their souls are still one, and, therefore, they are not enduring a breach, they are experiencing an “expansion”; in the same way that gold can be stretched by beating it “to aery thinness,” the soul they share will simply stretch to take in all the space between them. If their souls are separate, he says, they are like the feet of a compass: His lover’s soul is the fixed foot in the center, and his is the foot that moves around it. The firmness of the center foot makes the circle that the outer foot draws perfect: “Thy firmness makes my circle just, / And makes me end, where I begun.”
Explanation:
D is the answer to your question.
What is right for me may well be wrong from someone else’s perspective. So all the answers to this question are right and wrong, probably both at the same time.
If ever, I need to make that decision, I would say that well, it depends on who the other people are. Knowing the background and history of the person for whom I am supposed to sacrifice myself if of utmost importance in this case. The question becomes infinitely interesting if the history of the other persons is not available.
If the history of other persons is available, and if its me against a bunch of criminals who have committed horrors, then definitely a BIG NO. If it’s against someone who is a much better person according to my ethical standards, then he/she deserves to live a little longer than me.
If the history of other persons is not available, then it depends on the state of mind I’m in. If I’ve been suffering from depression, and I’m not able to see any silver lining for a long time, and life itself has lost meaning to me then I will want to restart my life. In that situation, Death may seem like a good idea to make a restart.
There are just, too many “ifs” to this question. No one can say what exactly they will actually do, until they are in the situation themselves.
