The Good Morrow Analysis

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The Good Morrow Journal Entry The first stanza in the poem introduces Donne and his lover and what they were like in their previous lives before they fell in love. Donne admits that he engaged in other meaningless pleasures before he fell in love to fill the emptiness inside him. Donne says that his and his beloved’s previous lives were unimportant. What is most important to Donne is they have each other now. The word choice and imagery in the first stanza indicates Donne might have filled his emptiness with other women before he met his beloved, “…But sucked on country pleasures, childishly?” The assonance in this stanza is the repetition of the ‘w.’ In the second stanza Donne states how wonderful the world is now that his beloved is in it. Donne makes his love for this woman seem very passionate by exclaiming that not even the discoveries of the new world were as important as her, “Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone…” The discovery of the new world was of utmost importance in the Elizabethan era, and for Donne to blow off the discoveries and claim his lover is more important really shows how enamored he is; this is a metaphysical characteristic. Donne uses iambic pentameter in this stanza and throughout the whole poem. The third stanza gives the reader insight to his and his beloved’s wonderland through the use of imagery and literary devices. “And true plain hearts do in the faces rest…” is a paradox because one cannot rest their heart in their face. Plato’s teachings do appear quite a bit throughout the play. In the last stanza, the ‘hemispheres’ can be thought of as symbolic for how Long 2 humanity came about. The hemispheres are also symbolic of Donne and his lover; together they are one, apart they cannot exist and do not complete a
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