In the poem The Good-Morrow, Donne uses word choice and diction to show the reader the narrators’ love for his lover through a romantic tone.
In the first stanza Donne writes about how the narrator and his lover were metaphorically asleep. The narrator wandered around aimlessly before meeting his love in the first line. He states that before they met or loved each other they did not know anything especially that of beauty. We can see this when he says, “twas but a dream of thee”. It is very obvious that also in this stanza Donne writes in the past tense, dwelling on their past experiences. To create a romantic tone in this stanza he uses words such as loved, pleasures, childishly, beauty and dream. These words create a certain feeling within the reader
After they are acquainted and awakened in the second stanza Donne switches the tense and starts using present tense. In this stanza he treats there love as if it were a journey, with things to be discovered. He wants them to go hand in hand on this journey so they could be close and be one.
From other Donne poems I have realized that he uses the image of reflections in his poems about love and he does this in the final stanza in the first line. He starts to mention that they are perfect for each other and they are meant for each other. He uses metaphors such as hemispheres to describe them and their love for each other. Overall Donne just wants to show how true love is supposed to be.
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Daaaaaang. I completely agree with this whole commentary thingy, which is rare because we usually don't have the same ideas when it comes to literature. Firstly, we have very similar, almost identical, thesis statements, so obviously the rest of the commentary will be similar as well. We each have similar views on the first stanza and how Donne writes in the past tense. We also have similar views on the second stanza and how the words change from past, to present tense.
yeah i would have to agree with this commentary too. how donne switches tenses from past to present does give one the mental image of a journey from one point to the next. i also agree with the fact that donne's love-filled tone signifies the strength of his love for his mate in the poem. overall i agree with this commentary, even with your statement about the reflections, showing how similar the two mates really are with one another.
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