Here are some such features as you can build your answer
upon:
1. The poem opens rather suddenly with a a typical
Metaphysical shudder;
2. Donne employs a rather
argumentative design as the lover addresses the beloved;
3.
The title Good Morrow itself is a typical Metaphysical conceit and
you will find such other condensed metaphors in the poem, e.g. the eyes of the lovers
being called better hemispheres;
4. There are scholarly
allusions/references, such as that of 'the seven sleepers' den and the theory of pure
substance;
5. The poem moves from a past world of body to a
present world of mind and thence to a future world of
spirit'
6. The poem is strikingly dramatic and
witty;
7. The poem initiates with a number of crucial
questions, interrogation being the staple of Metaphysical
search;
8. Unlike the Petrarchan convention, the poem
celebrates the joy of mutual love.
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