The Good Morrow Poem

The Good Morrow, a poem written by John Donne, gives a vivid, detailed, narration of the form of love many of us drastically seek to unearth. The narrator of The Good Morrow demonstrates no sign of misogyny, and instead displays an appreciation for the virtue of his lover in such a way that the reader comprehends the depths of their romance. Moreover, by developing such narration, Donne exhibits a pure and hopeful love, one in which he inspires his readers to acquire. He encourages this exploration by writing only of the positive encounters with his mistress. Therefore, he does not display the true structural balance of a relationship like he does in his poem, Loves Growth, in which a relationship is balanced by the ups and downs of life, or as he mentions in Loves Growth, the seasons. Nevertheless, if Donne chose to display a balanced relationship in The Good Morrow, then the reader would be weary of entering a relationship and would unconsciously shield themselves from the pure

The first two lines state, “My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears, and true plain hearts do in the face rest.” These lines demonstrate the love which resides within their eyes and faces as they are together. A strong love should be noted by peers when they see the longing and loving stares and smiles you give to one another, a smile and stare in which you have never given anyone else. Lines three and four reference a map in which the globe makes a sharp north and looks like a heart when doing so. Thus, reiterating the look in the couple’s eyes by saying they see hearts when they look at one another. Concluding, not only that stanza, but the poem as a whole, Donne states that a love that dies was never truly alive in the first place. By saying this he is reiterating that a perfect love is one that does not end, but instead fights till the end of