The clear and obvious English of the title "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" means D. a farewell urging the listener not to be sad.
The speaker points out that he is compelled to consume his time apart from his beloved, but before he go, he explains that goodbye should not be the event of sorrow and mourning.
Answer: Set in the early 1900s, Lowry's (Number the Stars) lyrical novel unspools at a leisurely pace through the eyes of Katy, who wishes to follow in the footsteps of her doctor father. As the narrator chronicles the pivotal year she turns nine, she describes the unlikely friendship she develops with a "touched" farm boy.
