The Good Morrow

 

IGNOU MEG01 BLOCK-2 Unit-13 John Donne: Portrait of the Man, His Thematic and Technical Innovations and textual study of four Love Poems


The Good Morrow


  • It is an Aubade(a morning love poem).

  • Love as profound experience equal to religious epiphany erotic love can produce same effect as religion.

  • The poet voices the doubt and uncertainties about his and her love's commitment to their love and new life.

  • Poem exalts are not done in the Petrarchan mode of making an abject surrender. The poem begins in a highly dramatic manner with a disconcerting question directed not only to his lady love but John Donne-I also to himself.



John Donne's "The Good-Morrow" is a poem that stands at the threshold of a new love universe. To Donne the experience that goes into the making of the poem, "The Good-Morrow" is like awakening from a nightmare.


The emphasis is not only put on 'thou' because he not only suspects the lady love, he also has doubt about himself and the syntactical construction of the first line runs into the second when he says, 'and I did'.


This union of the two is again reinforced through the image of the globe with two perfect hemispheres, one the lover and the other the beloved.


Simple or uncompounded things such as God or soul are incorruptible and compounded elements without contriety are also not subject to dissolution. But other compound things are perishable.


Block-3 The Metaphysical Poets: Donne, Herbert

Metaphysical poets Part 1 

Metaphysical poets Part 2

Life of John Donne 


More related and helpful links in the description box of my YouTube channel.


John Donne's Famous Poems- I explained on my YouTube Channel-

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