Good Morrow: A Love Poem by John Donne
Good Marrow is a passionate love poem by John Donne. The speaker, most probably the poet himself, starts with a number of rhetorical questions. These questions are directed at his mistress, beloved or wife, whatever you call her. Of course, the speaker does not want his partner to answer these questions, as the answers to these questions are already clear to the narrator. He starts with an oath and asks his beloved with wonder and surprise what they did before they fell in love and enjoyed each other. Perhaps, they were just infants before that experience of love making, and perhaps, they enjoyed their simple life more because of their unawareness of that side of life or they did something worthless prior to that relationship of theirs. The speaker goes on with his argument and compares their non-indulgence in love and love making to the non-indulgence in the worldly affairs of the seven sleepers who left the city and went into a cave where they slept for an infinitely long perio...