10/04/2021

THE GOOD-MORROW - BY JOHN DONNE

I expect the poem to be about a very near future, because the world “morrow” refers to a time that is still to come. I think a will be about a good future, because the world morrow is juxtaposed to the word good. The poem is arranged into three stanzas, of seven lines each, the song has a regular pattern. The song start with the question and the speaking voice is in first person. The song is reflective. In the first stanza the speaking voice asks three rhetorical questions to ask if the two lovers had a real life before they loved each other. Therefore, the first stanza is a declaration of love that the poet makes to his beloved, asking himself three rhetorical questions and saying that life wasn’t such before their meeting and their falling love. In the second stanza it is early morning, the two lovers are together (by two lovers we mean souls). In the following lines, the speaker is proving that any temptation outside is worthless. His eyes are controlled by love, therefore everything he sees is transformed by his adoration. The next three lines make use of anaphora with the repetition of the starting word “Let.” In these lines the speaking voice says that he does not care about the rest of the world, but a world where he and his beloved are enough. The final stanza of ‘The Good-Morrow’ begins with the speaker looking into his lover’s eyes. There he can see his own face and he knows her face appears in his eyes as well. Their heartfelt connection is evident within their faces. The speaking voice is comparing their faces to two hemispheres and he sees himself and his lover as soulmates, they are the other’s missing half. The last three lines speak on how a lack of balance can cause death.