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    Because there is a recurrent and uncompromising need to court the woman inside the privacy of a room and consummate sexually, is not found in most important poets before Donne. In the poem, the precinct of the lover's room becomes into a parallel world, a better one, by the fact of its occupancy byRead more

    Because there is a recurrent and uncompromising need to court the woman inside the privacy of a room and consummate sexually, is not found in most important poets before Donne. In the poem, the precinct of the lover’s room becomes into a parallel world, a better one, by the fact of its occupancy by the lovers.

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    The poem, The Good-Morrow is written from the point of view of an awaking lover and describes the lover's thoughts as he wakes next to his partner. The lover's musings move from discussing sensual love to spiritual love coupled with biblical references as he realises that, with spiritual love, the cRead more

    The poem, The Good-Morrow is written from the point of view of an awaking lover and describes the lover’s thoughts as he wakes next to his partner. The lover’s musings move from discussing sensual love to spiritual love coupled with biblical references as he realises that, with spiritual love, the couple are liberated from fear and the need to seek adventure.

    Hence, Good Morrow: waking up to a new life justifies the title of the poem.

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    The word "Metaphysical" applies in an obvious sense to Donne's poetry insofar as that he regularly speaks of the world of souls and spirits- the world beyond the physical- meta-physical.

    The word “Metaphysical” applies in an obvious sense to Donne’s poetry insofar as that he regularly speaks of the world of souls and spirits- the world beyond the physical– meta-physical.

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    The Good Morrow by John Donne is a love poem because it explicitly describes itself as a love poem. The lines of the poems are indicative of love between two lovers and how their souls have awakened only after they are united. The poet vindicates how his entire life before falling in love seems nowRead more

    The Good Morrow by John Donne is a love poem because it explicitly describes itself as a love poem. The lines of the poems are indicative of love between two lovers and how their souls have awakened only after they are united. The poet vindicates how his entire life before falling in love seems now to be an infantile experience. And, love has made all other pleasures redundant.

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    John Donne has cleverly and extensively used tools of figures of speech in this poem, mainly by use of simile, metaphor, pun, personification, hyperbole etc. The title of the poem is itself a metaphor for  "waking up to a new life" Similarly, use of Hyperbole, metaphor, simile, and pun is used in thRead more

    John Donne has cleverly and extensively used tools of figures of speech in this poem, mainly by use of simile, metaphor, pun, personification, hyperbole etc.

    The title of the poem is itself a metaphor for  “waking up to a new life”
    Similarly, use of Hyperbole, metaphor, simile, and pun is used in the opening lines,

    “I Wonder by my troth, what thou, and I
    Did, till we lov’d? were we not wean’d till then?
    But suck’d on countrey pleasures, childishly?
    Or snorted we in the seaven sleepers den?”

     

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