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THE GOOD-MORROWBY JOHN DONNE PRESENTED BY:REHAM AL NEFAIE

2. -It is a love lyric poem, contains of 3 stanzas, each stanza has 7 lines. - This
poem shows very clearly John Donnes style and his love of showing unusual
comparisons. Meaning of words: Troth: truth Weaned: prevent baby from
feeding from the breast. Sucked: draw into mouth. Snorted: make noise by
driving through nostrils. Den: small room. Fancies: imagination. Morrow: next
day or tomorrow. Posses: evil spirit. Thine: belonging to thee.

3. Hemisphere: half of the earth. Declining: refuse. Slacken make or become

looser. The Paraphrase: The 1st stanza: The opening line of the poem is a question
to attract the attention of the reader. He is asking a question and thinking about
what he and his beloved have been doing till they meet each other.

4. .- He is asking what had they been doing before they become aware of the
presence of each other and fall in love ,as if they were born at the first moment of
love: (new discovery).- The second question is an answer to the first one with the
answer that they were just like babies who didnt know about love, just enjoying
country pleasure and nature, and that they were innocents like children, may be
because we were sleeping for long time like the seven sleepers. - But when he met
her, he wake up from his long sleep. He admits that any pleasures of life they had
experienced before, they were just as fancies, and these things are not but an
image from his beloved or a dream of her.

5. THE 2ND STANZA-He is greeting the waking souls of lovers because they know
and fall in love with each other. So after having this long time sleeping, he says
Good Morrow which is an expression for the lovers because their souls and hearts
started to wake up. -once they discover each other, there is no fear from anyone
or from each other. That is because once you love some one, you will not see
anyone beside him and that because the love between them control them, as well
as their hearts and minds. -Even the surrounding people will not exist because love
is exclusive.

6. -Then he refers to the new lands of the world which are discovered .He says
that once they discovered each other ,he will not be interested in any other
discoveries in the world because it is enough for him to discover his beloved. It is
enough wants for them to have this world of love and he her to possess each other.

The3 rd. stanza -The last stanza shows that they are very close to each other, that
he can see his love in his beloveds eye. They can see each other in one another
eyes, and here he is referring to the reflection of the mirror and lenses. - He is
saying to his beloved that she can read all the passions of love in his face. He is
comparing himself and his beloved to north and west which complete each other to
make a unified World.
7. He says that she and he will make one soul, and he hopes that there will be no
Sharp division between them, referring to an old idea that whatever dies is not
mixed equally, but if her love is equal to his love, their love will be eternal and live
Image forever. The images in this poem are unusual. The comparison of men and
unaware of love is compared to women who were suckling babies. Another image
that is expressed in if the lover has had any vision of the poem that beauty before,
it was but a dream of his beloved. -In the second stanza, the poet changes the
metaphor, constituting a world by themselves. They are not interested in new
discoveries either on this planet or in the sky.

8. - The metaphor is changed again in the last two lines of the poem. Death
according to the Greek philosopher Galen is results from imbalance of elements
within the body. There is no imbalance between the two lovers, how then they could
die? - The poet uses scientific imagery, taking from: 1) The reflection of mirror
and lenses when he likens his eyes as will as his beloveds eyes with mirror and
lenses .breast 2)The little babies depend on their mothers because they are not
wean.3) He is mixing thoughts and feelings with the geographical discoveries.

9. RHYME SCHEME a, b, a, b, c, c, c a, b, a, b, c, c , c a, b, a, b, c, c , c - The

Good Morrow moves logically from past to present to future. These continual
shifts of tone and mood in the poem represent the speakers changing
understanding of the situation in which the lovers find themselves.-The poem
presents Donnes use of imagery and his strong sense of realism.