Need Help Good Morrow

[peatrie40]

I am taking a literature course online and I am unable to discuss my questions with anyone. I was wondering if any of you could help. The question is what the dramatic situation is and where are they and what is he saying to her? The only thing I got out of it was that before they meet it was like childhood and how their love for each other awakened them. But I am not sure where they are or exactly what the dramatic situation is. John Donne is hard for me to understand I am new to sonnets. Thank you. :)
Peatrie40

[Logos]

Maybe you could let us know which of Donne's works you're studying? :)

http://www.online-literature.com/donne/

[peatrie40]

it is his sonnet "The Good Morrow" sorry, thanks again

"The Good-Morrow"



I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I

Did, till we lov'd? Were we not wean'd till then?

But suck'd on countrey pleasures, childishly?

Or snorted we in the seaven sleepers den?

T'was so; But this, all pleasures fancies bee.

If ever any beauty I did see,

Which I desir'd, and got, 'twas but a dreame of thee.



And now good morrow to our waking soules,

Which watch not one another out of feare;

For love, all love of other sights controules,

And makes one little roome, an every where.

Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone,

Let Maps to other, worlds on worlds have showne,

Let us possesse one world; each hath one, and is one.



My face in thine eye, thine in mine appeares,

And true plaine hearts doe in the faces rest,

Where can we finde two better hemispheares

Without sharpe North, without declining West?

What ever dyes, was not mixed equally;

If our two loves be one, or, thou and I

Love so alike, that none doe slacken, none can die.

[Logos]

Ah ok, I should have realised by your title :)