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.
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Your commentary on "The Good-Morrow" was good. I agree that Donne shows these strong feelings of love within the speaker, and I like your quote showing the speaker before he was awakened by love of "But sucked on the country pleasures, childishly" because as you said it shows how the speaker came to the realization that the pleasures is not just love. The speaker enjoyed the pleasures of lust and wasn't fully awakened to life until he sought love. I also like your interpretation of "without sharp north, without declining west." I thought of it as being equal but your interpretation makes a lot of sense. It is very hard to find a perfect match of love, which is what the speaker has found in his love and Donne stresses this with the metaphors as u said. I agree with u-good interpertaion!
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