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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. To whom is the speaker addressing this poem?
2. Which techniques are seen in line 15, "My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears"?
3. In lines 2 and 3, what does the speaker compare himself and his lover to, before their relationship began?
4. In line 14, "Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one," what two things are being compared?
5. Lines 12-14, "Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone,/ Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown,/ Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one," contain an example of which technique?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the structure of this poem.
2. Explain the rhetorical purpose of the image that begins the third stanza.
3. Explain the poem's final conceit about the hemispheres of a planet.
4. Explain how the conceit of exploration is incorporated into the speaker's argument in stanza two.
5. Where is this poem set, and what is happening there?
6. What element of hyperbole is contained in the poem's allusion to the Seven Sleepers?
7. Explain the poem's allusion to the Seven Sleepers.
8. Explain how the conceit of dreaming unifies the first stanza.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about Donne's use of figurative language in "The Good Morrow." What types of figurative language does he use? What is the meaning of the figurative language? How does it 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 2
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the motif of sleep and waking in "The Good Morrow." Where is sleep discussed? What is its larger meaning? Where is waking discussed? What is its larger meaning? How do sleep and waking 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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