MEG – 01: BRITISH POETRY
ASSIGNMENT 2018 - 2019
(Based on Blocks (1 - 9)
Max. Marks: 100
6.
Did, till we lov'd? were we not wean'd till then?
But suck'd on countrey pleasures, childishly?
Or snorted we i' the seaven sleepers den?
These lines are taken from John Donne’s poem, “The Good-Morrow”. He is the pioneer of the metaphysical movement in English literature in the first half of the 17th century. His poetry is expressive of intense personal emotions in a conversational idiom with detachment. The poem tell us about his metaphysic of love, the implication of which inheres in a close interdependence of body and spirit.
In the poem, “The Good-Morrow” he presents the love that is serene, and the equipoise reaches the culmination. The mood of happiness and security in love-making that the poem exalts is not done in the petrarchan mode of making an abject surrender. The poem begins in a highly dramatic manner with a disconnecting question...................................................
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