The Good-Morrow Commentary

The Good-Morrow is a poem filled with metaphors and internal rhyme scheme similes. The poem is basically talking about New good morning. It’s a poem that is centralized around two key images. One of these metaphors is of two people who loved, being awaken from a different past to a new beginning or life. The second metaphor is of a new world or society being formed and made around their newly found love. In this poem there is all type of literary device that are used to approach the meaning of this poem. One evident device is rhetorical questions another device is the rhyme pattern.

In the first couple of stanza, Donne writes "I wonder, by my troth, what thou, and I did till we loved?" this line to me point out that in his past he was unaware of what the true value of life was until he possessed love. He also says also he says "but suck'd on country pleasured, childishly?" which meant that as he was younger both lovers gave into the act of sexual pleasure immaturely Now knowing that the enjoyment that they once had was lifeless and once now they are wise enough to understand love and be aware of its presence in life. Just from reading this poem and other of Donne’s poem I can tell that Donne has an ability to become obsessed with pleasures.

The title “The Good-Morrow” show us Donne’s feeling toward true love and the true meaning of it. The third stanza describes the reflection of their eyes in each other’s eyes and is filled with imagery. The line “true plain hearts” are shown in each face of the lover which supports the idea they are looking at one another. The poet then describes their world using him as one hemisphere and her as the other, making one whole, perfect world of mutual love. The poem concludes that their love is “so alike “that their love cannot die.