The Good-Morrow

BY  JOH N DON NE

I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I
Did, till we loved? Were we not weaned till then?
But sucked on country pleasures, childishly?
Or snorted we in the Seven Sleepers’ den?
’Twas so; but this, all pleasures fancies be.
If ever any beauty I did see,
Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.

And now good-morrow to our waking souls,

Which watch not one another out of fear;
For love, all love of other sights controls,
And makes one little room an everywhere.
Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone,
Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown,
Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one.

My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears,

And true plain hearts do in the faces rest;
Where can we find two better hemispheres,
Without sharp north, without declining west?
Whatever dies, was not mixed equally;
If our two loves be one, or, thou and I
Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.
Source: The Norton Anthology of Poetry Third Edition (1983)
The Good-Morrow Summary & Analysis
by John Donne
“The Good Morrow” is an aubade—a morning love poem—written by the
English poet John Donne, likely in the 1590s. In it, the speaker describes love
as a profound experience that's almost like a religious epiphany. Indeed, the
poem claims that erotic love can produce the same effects that religion can.
Through love, the speaker’s soul awakens; because of love, the speaker
abandons the outside world; in love, the speaker finds immortality. This is a
potentially subversive argument, for two reasons. First, because the poem
suggests that all love—even love outside of marriage—might have this
transformative, enlightening effect. Second, because of the idea that romantic
love can mirror the joys and revelations of religious devotion.

Themes in The Good-morrow

The central theme in The Good-morrow  is the nature and completeness of the lovers' world. Donne takes
the everyday idea that lovers live in a world of their own with little sense of reality, and turns it right round,
so that it is the outside world that is unreal. The intensity of their love is sufficient to create its own reality.
When they watch each other, it is not, as in the outside world, out of fear, but to complete themselves, as
each one is half of the world needing the other half.
Investigating The Good-morrow

 Consider the theme of the completeness of the lovers' world

o How does Donne explore this in the second stanza?
o Explain ‘each hath one, and is one'.

What is the simple meaning of literature?

literature, a body of written works. The name has traditionally been applied to those
imaginative works of poetry and prose distinguished by the intentions of their authors
and the perceived aesthetic excellence of their execution.

What is a form in literature?

FORM - is the name of the text type that the writer uses. For example, scripts,
sonnets, novels etc. All of these are different text types that a writer can use. The form
of a text is important because it indicates the writer's intentions, characters or key
themes.
What is the difference between form and
content and how do they relate to one
another?
Content is what a text says. Form is the way in which what it says is arranged.
Everything from a chapter to a paragraph to a punctuation mark is a way of
arranging the content of a text, and thus a formal quality. Form and content
can't be disconnected from one another because no two formal arrangements
of a text would convey the same impression. What's more, form can actually
determine content. For instance, when Andrew Marvell writes in his poem 'The
Bermudas' "he hangs in shades the orange bright /Like golden lamps in the
green night', the fact that he has to find a rhyme to complete the couplet
requires him to write 'orange bright', rather than 'bright orange', because
nothing rhymes with orange.

ELEMENTS OF A LITERARY WORK 

FORM:
1. Plot - organisation, structure, and sequence of events in a story/novel. 
2. Setting - the context and physical environment in which the story is set. 
3. Characters - imaginary people represented in a story. 
4. Language - the writer's choice of words (language). 
5. Style - Uniqueness of the writer. 

CONTENT:
1. Theme - the subject matter of a story. The story may have many themes. 
2. Conflict - an argument, disagreement, clash, struggle, or misunderstanding in the story. 
3. Message - An idea a writer wants to convey to his/her people. 
4. Lesson - Morals/teachings a writer wants his/her people to take. 
5. Philosophy - Stance, attitude, viewpoint, belief of a writer. 

Imagination and Creativity in Literary Stories: A Guide for Writers

Sunday, August 2nd, 2015 at 3:33 am

William H. Coles

Imagination used in creative storytelling is the essence of literary fiction. Memoir is

remembering and describing factual events. Traditional imagined literary fiction is ignored
today–mostly for financial reasons–by publishing, publicity, literary-agents, literary-prize
choices, and inadequate teachers of creative writing resulting in blurred barriers between memoir
and literary fiction. As a result, the quality of both memoir and literary fiction has deteriorated in
artistic achievement, impact, and memorability. Great literature is a cornerstone of cultural
advancement and contemporary authors have responsibility to society to learn and create literary
fiction and memoir to the best of their ability.
It must be noted great memoir does employ creativity in the describing, in the presentation,
and the prose manipulation. Literary fiction, however, uses imagination in creatively building
characters uniquely related to the story being told and creatively integrating characters and plot
with a structured story created with a purpose to engage, entertain, and enlighten a reader
through imaginative artistic creation. Learning the skill of effective characterization is essential
to lasting success for an author of literary fiction.
To create great characters that vitalize motives and desires in purposeful plotting, authors
must create by:
1) structuring stories, whenever indicated, with beginning, middle, and end.
2) creating mystery and suspense to sustain reader engagement and enjoyment as essential to
allow reader to see the world in new ways from reading the story.
3) engaging the reader with credible and acceptable character thoughts and reactions that relate
to being human in addition to reflexively reacting to situations.
4) creating scenes through conflict, action and resolution (dramatic) that show characters’
essential qualities and relate to overall story-plot purpose.
5) instilling believable and consistently changing motivations.
6) identifying core desire(s) that drive a character’s action in the story.
7) using effective narration to show story to the reader through images, effective metaphor,
tightly constructed plot progression, and character and story related action.
8) writing in-scene “showing” (concrete) in proper balance with narrator telling of story (often
abstract). In-scene showing adds an aura of truth that story could happen in the world established
by the author and allows a reader to become involved to discover meaning unique to them.
9) allowing only judicious use of fatalism in plot construction; instead, depending on revelations
of human strengths and weaknesses in shaping lives to provide energy for story progression and
resolution.

What is imagination and creativity?

Creativity is the act of creating something in the real world, while imagination
deals with 'unreal' thoughts that are free from the confines of reality . When we are
children, we use imagination all the time.

What is an example of subjectivity?

Subjectivity is a decision or understanding based on a particular person's opinion or life
experiences. An example of subjectivity is someone saying that they think country
music is better than other types of music. (singular only) The state of being subjective.
Definition of Subjective

A subjective point of view is something based on one’s opinions, perspectives,

beliefs, discoveries, desires, and feelings. It has no concern with right or
wrong, other than the person’s opinion of what is right and wrong. Likewise,
subjective writing or point of view is based on the writer’s own observation and
experience. It focuses on the writer’s personal point of view and not built on
facts that others see or things others go through.

Subjective Literature (Types of Subjective

Poetry)
ByzubairJuly 30, 2021

What is Subjective Literature?

The term “subjective literature” refers to any written work that is not objective
but instead tells a story from the perspective of one or more characters. It is
characterized by an emphasis on emotion and introspection, as well as a lack
of objectivity in content.

Subjective literature can be found in novels, poetry, drama, and other literary
forms. This type of writing differs greatly from objective literature because it
puts forth ideas without providing evidence for them. It explores the various
perspectives people have on reality and how their individual feelings influence
their views on what they experience. The author’s point-of-view influences
what happens in the storyline with events often being created based on the
author’s personal experiences or desires.

Definition
Subjective literature is internally inspired literature in which the writers extract
emotions from the internal subject. In subjective writing, writers usually convey
personal experiences and feelings. The forms of subjective writings are
autobiographies, personal essays, lyrical literature, lyrical poetry, ode, and
sonnet. This term of writing was largely used in the romantic age. ‘Keats’ used
subjectivity in his Odes and other writers like P.B. Shelly, James Joyce, and
Thomas Wolfe vividly used this kind of writing.

What is Subjective Poetry?

In subjective poetry, the poet’s thinking, likes, and dislikes, ideology, personal
experience, and assumptions have been discussed in his creative work. This
subjective poetry enhances our attraction towards the work and creates
curiosity about what to do next.

Types of Subjective Poetry

There are four types of subjective poetry.

1. Lyric
2. Elegy
3. Ode
4. Sonnet

Lyric:
The word “lyric’’ was originated from ancient Greek literature, “the lyric”. It is a
short poem that includes musical qualities having a rhyme scheme. The Poet
discusses his personal experience in his creative work. Writer’s including the
famous writer Pindar  used this form of poetry in his work.

Elegy:
It is derived from the Greek word “Elegia” which means lament. In this form of
subjective poetry, the Poet discusses the death of someone beloved and it has
a serious theme. Thomas Gray’s “Elegy in the country churchyard” is a famous
elegy in literature.
Ode:
The Ode is an elaborately structured poem that glorifies some event or
individual. In this form of Poetry, the Poet directly addresses someone or
something or describes nature intellectually and emotionally. John Keat’s Ode
on a Grecian Urn  is a famous ode in literature.

Sonnet:
Originated from the Italian Word Sonnetto  and used from the 13th century. It
has a strict rhyme scheme of fourteen lines having a specific
structure. Petrarch and William Shakespeare used this form of poetry.

Function of Subjective
Subjective writing approach is advantageous in that permits the readers to go
into the deep of a writer through an explanation of his characters, opinions,
and beliefs. It sometimes builds pressure and provides freedom to readers to
explain the actions of characters individually. The approach gives an opinion
that every person interprets a thing from a different angle.

Subjective Poetry Vs. Objective Poetry

‘Subjective Poetry’ includes self-expression and the personal experience of a
poet. Personal thoughts and feelings are also included in this form of poetry.

Objective Poetry is impersonal in which the writer is inspired by the actions

and passion of the outside world. This form of poetry includes ‘epic’, ‘novel’
and ‘drama’.

Use of Subjectivity in Literature

1. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by Joyce
2. The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
3. Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
4. Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth
5. Ode to the West Wind by John Keats
6. Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb
7. Paradise Lost by Milton
8. Dover Beach by Mathew Arnold
9. Artistry

Artistry describes literature that is aesthetically appealing and reveals or

conveys hidden truth and beauty. This type of literature appeals to broad
audiences and possesses a sense of beauty in the writing that could even feel
poetic.

Definition of greatness

: the quality or state of being great (as in size, skill, achievement, or power) Today,
many Inca buildings still stand—all witnesses to an empire of unforgettable greatness.—