Beauty in Donne's "The Good Morrow" represents the poet's persona's

Literature in English

JAMB 2025

From the novel; Selected Poems from: Exam Focus: Literature-in-English: 2021-25

Beauty in Donne's "The Good Morrow" represents the poet's persona's

A. friend
B. lover
C. niece
D. mother

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Correct Answer: Option B

Explanation

In this metaphysical poem, Donne celebrates a "waking" into a mature, spiritual love. When he mentions any "beauty" he had seen and desired before, he notes it was but a "dream" of his current lover. To him, all previous experiences of beauty were merely shadows of the real woman he now loves.

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