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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 8 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In lines 2 and 3, what does the speaker compare himself and his lover to, before their relationship began?

2. How many additional syllables does the final line in each stanza contain?

3. What is the dominant meter of this poem?

4. In line 1, the speaker uses the word "troth." What does this word mean in this context?

5. What is the literal meaning of the poem's title?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the poem's allusion to the Seven Sleepers.

2. What element of hyperbole is contained in the poem's allusion to the Seven Sleepers?

3. Explain the poem's final conceit about the hemispheres of a planet.

4. Where is this poem set, and what is happening there?

5. Explain the rhetorical purpose of the image that begins the third stanza.

6. Describe the structure of this poem.

7. Explain how the conceit of dreaming unifies the first stanza.

8. Explain how the conceit of exploration is incorporated into the speaker's argument in stanza two.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the speaker's beliefs about love in "The Good Morrow." How important does love seem to be to the speaker? What are some of the things that the speaker thinks love can accomplish? How does this make the speaker feel? What role do the speaker's beliefs about love play in the poem's overall meaning? Support your ideas with both quoted and paraphrased evidence from the poem's text. Cite your evidence in MLA format.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about how Donne employs linebreak in "The Good Morrow." Which lines are enjambed? Which are endstopped? What difference do these choices make to the flow of the poem, and how does this impact tone? How do these choices impact the emphasis of ideas? How do these choices support the poem's overall meaning? Support your ideas with both quoted and paraphrased evidence from the poem's text. Cite your evidence in MLA format.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the impact of Donne's choice to frame his poem as an apostrophe to the beloved. What is an apostrophe? How does the reader recognize that the poem is an apostrophe to the beloved? What impact does this choice have on tone? How does this choice support the poem's claims about an all-consuming love? Support your ideas with both quoted and paraphrased evidence from the poem's text. Cite your evidence in MLA format.

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