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Reading and Content Analysis of Non-African Poetry: Good-Morrow by John Donne. The Good-Morrow John Donne, 1572 – 1631

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LITERATURE IN ENGLISH SSS1 FIRST TERM

WEEK SIX

Reading and Content Analysis of Non-African Poetry: Good-Morrow by John Donne.

The Good-Morrow

John Donne, 1572 – 1631

CONTENT

REFERENCE

  • Exam Reflection in Literature- in-English by Sunday OlatejuFaniyi.
  • Exam Reflection in Literature-in-English (Prose and Drama) by Sunday OlatejuFaniyi. 
  • Fences by August Wilson.
  • Look Back in Anger by John Osborne.

 

Reading and Content Analysis of Non-African Poetry: Good-Morrow by John Donne.

The Good-Morrow

John Donne, 1572 - 1631

I wonder by my troth, what thou and I
Did, till we loved? Were we not wean’d till then? 
But suck’d on country pleasures, childishly? 
Or snorted we in the Seven Sleepers’ den?
‘Twas so; but this, all pleasures fancies be;
If ever…