This is presentation # 1.2. which was by Reham. (The Good Morrow).

1. THE GOOD-MORROW
BY 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 Donne’s 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.
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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
didn’t 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.
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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. The
3 rd stanza
-The last stanza shows that they are very close to
each other ,that he can see his love in his beloved’s
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 belover to north and
west which complete each other to make a unified
World.

7. He says that she and him 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 beloved’s eyes with
mirror and lenses .
breast 2)The little babies depend on their mother’s 
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. This continual shifts of tone and
mood in the poem represent the speaker’s
changing understanding of the situation in which
the lovers find themselves.
-The poem presents Donne’s use of imagery and 
his strong sense of realism.