The bait

In John Donne's, "The Bait" Donne uses metaphors and diction to show how women, in a sense, or are more like the bait in a pond and how the men are the fish. Donne talks about how the bait lures him in throughout the entire poem and also shows how the other men are lucky from straying from the bait.
Through the first half of the poem Donne shows the bait as something that he needs to have. Using lines like "Warm'd by thy eyes, more than the sun;" shows that, at least in the beginning, that Donne wants the confort of this bait. This is the one thing that he wants more than any other and that he is the best "fish" for this bait. Donne also shows his love for this bait through all stanza's comparing himslef to other fish and bettering himself.
The bottom half of the poem Donne realizes that he is entrapped by this bait. This bait, being a woman, has trapped him and he needs it more than anything. He now compliments the other fish for not being lured in. Telling them in stanza five "Let others freeze with angling reeds,And cut their legs with shells and weeds,Or treacherously poor fish beset,With strangling snare, or windowy net." He warns them of the danger of love and this bait that women are throwing out. This is Donne's main point through the poem. The bait is not actually his love but more like his trap or prison. The bait has captured him.

The Good-Morrow

In The Good-Morrow John Donne uses metaphors and imagery to represent his feelings of love. This poem by Donne is filled with these metaphors and the images that surround them making them more clear. One of the major metaphors within the poem is the actualy love that is being expressed and it is made more clear by some of the images that are used to represent it.

The metaphors that are in all three stanzas. The first stanza states "But I sucked on country pleasures, childishly?" Donne asks himself did he continue to go along with the love, childishly and instead of realizing whats really going on. The imagery he uses with country pleasures also give us a sense that this was something favorable to Donne, something pleasant. The second stanza states "For love, all love of other sights controls". This lets us kno that love is controlling every aspect of his life and the imagergy to support it comes in line 14 where Donne talks about the world as one, love conquering all. The last stanza states "Where can we find two better hemisphere, Without sharo north, without declining west?" This tell us how rare it is to find two perfect loves exactly perfect for each other, while at the same time it is its own imagery.

Donne used the metaphors along with the imagery to show how his love was so addictive controlive and yet perfect. These metaphors gives us better insight on how serious and deep this affection is and how it is like the title, yet another metaphor, The Good-Morrow.