The Good Morrow Analysis

The Good Morrow is one of John Donne’s well known poems. It’s a love poem that consists of three stanzas. It belongs to the metaphysical school. In this poem Donne praises the true love he shares with his beloved. Moreover, he celebrates spiritual love which is better than just physical relationships which is the main conceit of the poem. The first stanza starts with a rhetorical question to express his wonder and to understand how they lived before they fell in love with each other. It is noticeable that he used colloquial language. He also used swearing in “I wonder, by my troth” which means I swear by my faith, to point out his wander and astonishment. He uses these three physical activities “weaning”, ”sucked …show more content…
He uses the seven sleepers, who are seven young Christians that slept in a cave for 187 years however this early miracle was presented negatively to show his wonder to how could they have been unconscious to what is spiritual and real. He also shows that all the beauty and pleasures were only illusions by using Plato’s allegory of the cave. Moreover, he also points out the similarities between Plato’s cave dwellers and the seven sleepers as in both cases as they both were trapped in the darkness of the cave and they were unconscious of the real …show more content…
Moreover he says that their love for each other is seen in their eyes, which are the windows of inner feelings and also the windows of the outer world. Moreover, he uses assonance in "my," "thine," "eye," "thine," "mine" to enhance his point. In this stanza, Donne seems to be fascinated by spheres, as he uses the idea of spheres to describe the world then to describe his beloved’s eyes. Moreover, in the end he compares her flawless face and looks to a perfect sphere that has no edges using rhetorical question to grasp the attention to his point by saying “where can you find two better hemispheres.” Furthermore, the influence of the scientific discovers on Donne is seen in his choice of words “find”, “sharp north” and declining west.” Last but not least, he used Aristotle’s physics theory of Terrestrial change and elements to support his idea, saying that, their love is like the spiritual perfection of a sphere and anything that dies is because it was made of mixed inadequate physical elements and that’s why they were meant to decay. However, the poet says that “if” they continue loving each other, their spiritual love will become