In attempts to enlarge the meaning of life, literary rhetoric of the Renaissance allowed for development of one’s personal understanding of the universe through metaphorical devices. By associating the subject or theme to the universe effectively enhances it to a greater scale, drawing focus to a poet 's underlying message. In John Donne’s sonnet “The Good-Morrow,” the speaker relates love to a microcosm of the universe. The poem is an expression of love through physical and spiritual metaphors and images depicting an infallible love. Through Donne’s delivery of paradoxical images and reflective metaphors, he builds an entirely unique image of love.“The Good-Morrow” introduces an all-encompassing spiritual love that surpasses all others.
Each stanza is comprised of seven lines, consisting of two alternating couplets--moving from physical and temporal ideas into more spiritual ones--followed by a triplet resolving these ideas more interpretively. The couplets introduce an idea and develops it into the triplet where the speaker reflects on these ideas and offers his …show more content…
Here, the speaker might mean that their kind of love is fearless or that their love is free of jealousies. In line 11 of the second stanza the speaker alludes to a microcosm, “one little room an everywhere” (l.11). This allusion delivers strong imagery as the speaker claims their love is all-encompassing and so complete that it exists as world all on its own, making their love as well as their room “an everywhere” (l.11). He goes on to say that discovery and exploration are better left to the professionals, who are probably not in love like he and his lover, because the only world worth possessing is the one in their
Each stanza is comprised of seven lines, consisting of two alternating couplets--moving from physical and temporal ideas into more spiritual ones--followed by a triplet resolving these ideas more interpretively. The couplets introduce an idea and develops it into the triplet where the speaker reflects on these ideas and offers his …show more content…
Here, the speaker might mean that their kind of love is fearless or that their love is free of jealousies. In line 11 of the second stanza the speaker alludes to a microcosm, “one little room an everywhere” (l.11). This allusion delivers strong imagery as the speaker claims their love is all-encompassing and so complete that it exists as world all on its own, making their love as well as their room “an everywhere” (l.11). He goes on to say that discovery and exploration are better left to the professionals, who are probably not in love like he and his lover, because the only world worth possessing is the one in their