“The Good Morrow” is a morning love poem—written by the English poet John Donne, likely in the 1590s. The poem “The Good Morrow” is commonly considered to be one of Donne’s initial. It is a poem that explores the theme of love and the idea of two souls becoming one.

Theme of the poem “The Good Morrow”:

    "The Good Morrow" is a festival of adoration, which it presents as a serious and unmatched joy. All the delights that the two sweethearts experienced before they found each other could not hope to compare to the delight they experience together. To be sure, love is strong to the point that the speaker depicts it as an enlivening of the spirit: it is very nearly a strict encounter. Furthermore, similar to a strict encounter, it reshapes the sweethearts' disposition to the world overall. Like priests or nuns who devote themselves to strict practice, the two darlings commit themselves to adore above experience and profession achievement. "The Good Morrow" in this manner deciphers heartfelt — and sexual — love into a strict, even sacred, experience. Love itself, the speaker proposes, is equipped for creating similar experiences as religion.

Summary of the poem “The Good Morrow”:

    The poem is structured in three stanzas, each containing seven lines that are conventional to a rhyming outline of ababccc. This is a very exceptional prototype of verse that is only made more attractive by the unreliable example of the meter. The maximum of the lines contain ten syllables but each verse ends with a line of twelve syllables. This variant was probably done to continue a reader’s engagement with both the story line and the text itself.

    ''The Good Morrow'' sonnet rundown can assist with providing perusers with a more complete feeling of what this sonnet implies. Every verse has its own metaphors, images, and thoughts that assist with uniting the entire work.

    In the first stanza the poet thinks about what his own life and the existence of his darling resembled before they met and experienced passionate feelings for. He compares this piece of their lives to both rest and adolescence, and notices that any excellence he assumed he saw, or anybody he assumed he cherished, fails to measure up to his actual dearest. The speaker addresses his lover, saying that their love has awakened him from a state of spiritual infancy. He compares their love to a new world, free from the constraints of the physical world.

    In the second stanza, the speaker compares their love to the union of two hemispheres, suggesting that their love is complete and perfect. He also suggests that their love is so strong that it has the power to make time stand still.

    In the third stanza, the speaker concludes by saying that their love is the only reality, and that everything else is an illusion. He suggests that their love is eternal and that they will continue to be united even after death.

    Overall, "The Good-Morrow" is a complex and beautiful poem that celebrates the power of love to transcend physical boundaries and create a new reality.