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

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

3. To whom is the speaker addressing this poem?

4. Which term describes the use of the word "beauty" in line 6?

5. Line 11, "And makes one little room an everywhere," contains an example of which technique?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Describe the structure of this poem.

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 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.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the poem's theme. What are the various claims this poem makes? What patterns of meaning--motifs--do you see in the poem? How do language and detail choices support these motifs? What overall idea sums up all of these smaller claims and patterns of 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 Good Morrow" as an example of an aubade. What makes the poem an aubade? Why does it matter that this poem is an aubade--what additional understandings about theme arise from the poem's genre? Support your ideas with both quoted and paraphrased evidence from the poem's text. Cite your evidence in MLA format.

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