The Good Morrow Poem Analysis

Courtney Holloway

Ms. Mayr

English IB HL/1

1 April 2014

The Good Morrow

S- The subject of this poem is love and its ability to exist outside time and the physical world.

P- What did we do in life before we met each other? Were we asleep? Or were we just like nursing babies, unaware of what was going on. Yes that’s how it was, but the pleasures from then are just and image of you.

But now we’ve realized we love each other and are happy, We are not jealous and don’t watch each other because we are afraid. Love always finds its way. So let others discover the world, because we have our own. Everyone has their own world, but let us share one.

When I look into your eyes, I see myself. I see our love is pure. We could not be better for each other. If we love each other equally and endlessly, our love could not possibly die.

O- The occasion is a man expressing his love to a woman. The talk about discovering worlds is consistent with the fact that Europe has just started to explore the New World at this time in Donne’s life.

T- The tone is confident and very passionate. The speaker feels strongly about the woman he is presenting this to.

T- The theme of this poem is that love is metaphysical, and it is eternal. It exists outside the physical world.

T- The title of this poem is talking about the waking of the lovers’ souls for each other.

S- The speaker of this poem is a young man. He is intelligent, because he talks about different geography metaphors and connects them back to his lover.

In John Donne’s poem, “The Good Morrow,” he uses many geography terms in order to compare his lover and the love they share to a whole world. This exaggerates his feelings for her. The rhyme scheme was simple, because women were thought to be stupid...

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.... But he is also trying to comfort her, so it is soothing and comforting as well.

S- The speaker is a male, probably old because he is dying. I got a sense that he had trust issues because he warned his wife that she would have a fall in virtue if she slept with anyone else when he died. He is intelligent, and very in love with this woman.

In the poem, “A Valediction: Of Weeping,” by John Donne, he uses many references to body parts to show his point that their love is physical, and the connection will be lost after death. He uses many geography words in order to compare his lover to the entire world. Death and pain words are used to paint a picture for the reader that this man is about to die, and they about to lose each other. And finally, the use of personal pronouns gives the poem the special love connection between the lovers, making the goodbye even harder.