Compulsory Plog: The Good-Morrow

In "The Good-Morrow", John Donne employs a wide variety of analogies and extended
to metaphors to convey his feelings about love. He uses these to create a mood of
infatuation with both the object of his love, and love itself. This is very evident in the first
stanza, in which Donne uses the metaphor of immaturity to describe his life before love. He states that he was "sucked on country pleasures, childishly". This childhood seems to resolve into the maturity of adulthood with love. He also uses an illusion to the Seven Sleepers to set up another analogy, which he builds upon at the beginning of the second stanza, in which he describes the discovery of love as a "good-morrow" to he and his lovers' "waking souls". This implies that all of their lives before meeting one another were sleep, broken only by love. He then goes on to liken love to the work of "sea discoverers" and those who pursue maps. He seems to imply that he does not need those things, because love in itself is enough of a fantastic discovery. In the final stanza, Donne compares his and his lovers' faces to hemispheres, which almost seems to refer back to his other geographical references of the poem, such as the one about maps.