The Good Morrow
The Good Morrow
The Good Morrow
For one, the poet employs the element, unified sensibilities. It takes a
homologous structure approach in relating two dissimilar entities: a fusion of
passionate feeling and logical argument. This lifts the emotional sense of the
poem into mental depth as seen in the extended metaphors, “two better
hemispheres” (line 3, stanza 3), “maps”. This kind of poem presents a fresh
outlook on love as a matter of reasoning, as Shakespeare says in A Midsummer
Night’s Dream , “Love looks not with the eye, but with the mind”. Creating
something new on the subject, John Donne does not conform to the tradition of
likening the lover to romantic elements inherent in nature in order that he
grounds the eternity of such a feeling; but he uses intellectual analogies that
are not to be found anywhere in the natural world. The allusion, “seven
sleepers’ den”, metaphors, “map”, “little room… everywhere”, “two…
hemispheres”, and ultimately, the epigram, “whatever dies was not mixed
equally” are all oriented toward the overlapping effect of intellectuality on
emotions, although both make a sensible merger that Iiidispels the illusion of
one not being an existential determinant of love.
non that birthed the poem. And this is why John Donne adopts this kind of
stylised love piece to cross the boundary set by the construct of the time, highly
imagining a world of possibility different from the imbroglio they both have
found themselves on the aforementioned note.
To cap it all, that John Donne’s “The Good Morrow” is a metaphysical poem is a
far reaching substance of indubitability. From the salience of the elements
employed in presenting the age long subject of love, we see that the poem
combines passion and logic to express love in a way that rather taxes reasoning
and imagination than merely appealing to it. The quality of the poem is enforced
by the beyond-the-physical kind of recreating a spectacle of sensational (mostly
visual) elements to appeal for the classlessness of love – and the eternity of its
genuineness at that.