Summary of the poem 'The Good Morrow'.

Donne's poem 'The Good Morrow' continues the theme of immortal love, but Donne's poetic technique as well as his made of argument are different. With Donne we are in a new era of English poetry.

           Donne begins on a stirring note, with a question. In the first stanza he says that 'till they fell in love, he and his mistress were like infants or unsophisticated people who enjoy only rustic pleasures'. But with their love they have grown up. Then he urges his mistress to concentrate on their love and not to get distracted by events happening all around. If they concentrate on each other that itself would constitute a single world and a self-sufficient world for them two. In the final stanza Donne comes up with his theory of love. He says that for love to be immortal both the lovers should love equally without any side slackening. In order to demonstrate this he bases his argument on the medieval in scholastic doctrine that decay is inevitable in things constituted of disproportionate or dissimilar elements.