Good Morrow

John Donne through the use of various lit techs such as repition, rhetorical questioning and illussions creates an optimistically compassionate mood in his poem The Good-morrow. Though this poem is ambigious in its subject and its narrator the techniques used to write this rather short poem create and undeniably romantic and engaging mood.

Donne by posing a variety of rhetorical questions such as,"...were we not weaned til then?" expresses how consumed the narrator is with their relationship and how all events prior to this relationship seem meaningless and unimportant. The connotation of these rhetotrical questions which challenge the value of anytime these two lovers don't spend together contributes to the romantic and engaing mood of this poem because not only do you get a sense of complete hapiness from the narrator because he feels his will defy all time but also because he speaks of the fantastic lengths that their love will overcome and how completely wonderful his relationship is.
The repition of the word let by Donne suggests that the narrator is hopeless optimistic in the endless possibilities and capability of his love. This infference can be made because the narrator says,"let maps to others, worlds on worlds have shown,let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one" which means that he feels that their love is something so intense and magical that others may have never expressed its wonders and that they need a map to travel into such a wonderful relationship. This repition also contributes to the romanitc nature of this poem because the narrator, in his extreme infatuation, speaks of him and his lover becoming a single entity and acting as models of the ideal relationship which connotes some sense of insanity in the narrator's mind because he feels as though he and his lover are perfect and that they should serve as inspiration to all people.
Like the rhetorical questions and repition the allusion that is made to the Seven Sleeper's in this poem also adds to the optimistic nature of the narrator beacuse he compares them to christians that were protected by God which suggests that he feels that his relationship will be both everlasting and celestially sanctioned.