I would say that Donne uses this title because it sums up
the point that the speaker is trying to make. It is telling the speaker's love that,
although they are parting, there is no reason for sorrow because they will not truly be
apart.
A valediction is a parting statement, something you
say to someone as you and they are leaving one another, a farewell. So this makes sense
as a title because the lovers are being separated.
But in
this poem, the speaker is saying that the two of them will not really be separated
because their love will keep them in touch. Therefore, the speaker is telling his love
not to be sad -- he is forbidding mourning.
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