John Donne comes from what is known as the Jacobean ear. This period was just after the time of Shakespeare. The metaphysical poets used a lot of the scientific ideas of the time in their poetry. In his poems he shows his passion, his ability to love deeply while being distrustful to women in general.
The good morrow shows how John Donne shows how certain and strong his love for his mistress is however he considers the fragility of love at the same time. The first stanza begins by telling his mistress as if he was talking directly to her his love for her in the past. He talks about his past relationships, that they were all really childish, before this relationship, although now he his really in love and believes this is a real relationship which will last. In line 4 of the poem, John Donne uses an allusion: "Or snorted we in the seven sleepers' den?" The seven sleepers are seven young Christians who were walled up in a cave in the year 249. Miraculously, they did not die but slept for 187 years. The freed cave-dwellers discover God, but Donne and his lady find each other, this is how John Donne presents his love for his mistress.
In the first stanza of "The Good Morrow," Donne and his lady are in darkness, but in the second, they have emerged into the sunlight, awakened from the dream that they previously considered to be reality, and discovered perfection. He tells his mistress about the relationship between them at the present time. He says to his mistress how everything in the room is in his world “and makes one little roome, an every where.” He is referring to his women and Donne’s life be joined into one, as he goes onto say, “let us possesse one world, each hath one, and is one,” this suggests how Donne’s world and his mistresses world is joined together to make one.
The third and last stanza Donne talks about their love in the future, Donne goes on to say that if each lover matches the perfection of the other's love to such a degree that neither can wane, their love will become deathless. Donne presents to us that there is a perfect eternal love relationship, as they love each other so much that their love will last forever, they have a future together, “Love so alike that none do slacken, none can die.” In "The Good Morrow," Donne and his lady emerge from the dreamlike unreality and darkness of a cave and immediately discover that their love will last forever, a deathless encounter that is "mixed equally."
