"The Good Morrow" a poem by John Donne.

In the second stanza, when the speaker shared his love it seemingly portrayed a tribute to the fierce love that has been awakened.  When the two lovers come together to form one Donne’s view strengthens the underlying idea of love when he writes “For love all love of other sights controls, / and makes one little room and everywhere” (Line 10-11).  What attracted my attention was how Donne rationalized the speaker of this poem when he says, “Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one” (Line 14).  Donne characterized there feelings of one another such that these lovers don’t have to fight over the world because these lovers are their own world.  Now newly awakened from the dream that they previously considered to be reality in the first stanza, they emerged from the darkness of “the Seven Sleepers’ den” (Line 4) and discover perfection, the perfection of their unity.  Donne uses phrases like “Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone;” (Line 12), to suggest the idea that they are like a new continent found.  The lovers establish a title no less than any of these other world discoverers that find new land, in the world. The narrator talks about how cartographers “Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown” (Line 13) the keys to how the land and sea were made, which is a beautiful metaphor.  

In the third stanza, “Whatever dies was not mixed equally” (Line 19) claims that the lovers are absolutely equal and makes the poem and the speaker more reliable, because now he is associating there emotional love to fact.  This is a beautiful way to declare the equality of their togetherness which will allow there love to never die.  The imagery in line 19 depicts the equal mixture of their two souls forming a new unity. This corresponds to how four elements, earth, air, fire, and water were designed to form a new substance. Two souls balancing depend on love and stability; the elemental creation of their being and how well it’s balanced will allow there love to be deathless.  Within the third stanza Donne moves away from the dream like state of slumber, and into reality with the statements of “My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears” (Line 15), a statement of fact.  Furthermore the narrator strengthens his integrity and the truthfulness of his feelings by assuring his love; with the plain heart which is the sincere heart, it does not contrive any crooked ways to play games to win her heart.

This poem is much easier to interpret than many of the Shakespearian love poems, and expresses a complete love between two people, a symbol of perfection.  Donne’s ingenuity and wit has created a clever poem. His emotional expression is capable of stirring sentiment and unveiling feelings with his ingenious talent through the use of poetic symbols, and images.  Donne has presented a couple emerging from there dreamlike reality and darkness to an immediate discovery of sexual love.  His revolutionary ability during the written time period of this poem, bring upon feelings of envy, to write with such passion must have a degree of occurrence.  By reading his poem it has brought an outlook upon love I’ve never visualized before.