How can "The Good-Morrow" be critically interpreted?

"The Good Morrow" is one of Donne's most famous poems, the subject of much literary interpretation and criticism. Its numerous allusions to seventeenth-century philosophical and scientific...

The theme  of Good Morrow is built on the experience of physical union .

Through the  speculations and reflections of the ecstasy .Donne employs the techniques which are,- the abrupt opening of the poem with a surprising dramatic line(I wander by my troth,what thou and I/Did,till we loved?); the use of colloquial diction (snorted ,But suck’d); the ideas in the poem being presented as a logical and persuasive argument (before experience ,after experience, the nature of the experience ,resultant of the experience ) the mode of wooing is such that “He perplexes the mind of the fair sex with nice speculations of philosophy , when he should entertain them with the softness of love” .In The Good morrow

Donne neither woos his mistress nor invites her to respond for love-making .He employs thrashing logic ,abrupt comparison and farfetched images which prove a riddle to the mistress .His intention is to philosophize the experience ,and make the lady-love understand that .his is how he perplexes the fair sex .

Again Donne in this poem takes metaphors from all spheres of life, especially from legend( “seven sleepers den”) ,nature(country pleasure) ,geography(hemispheres ,sharp North ,declining West,) navigation(sea-discoverers) paintings(dyes) etc.These images are, ingenious and far-fetched . All these are departures from the Elizabethan conventional love- poetry .

Both in content and form the poet in “The Good morrow” breaks the tie of Elizabethan tradition of love poetry.

The idea of two coming together to form one is very important in Donne's view of love. When a couple find perfect love together they become all-sufficient to one another, forming a world of their own, which has no need of the outside world. This idea is expressed in the lines from The Good-Morrow ;For love,all love of other sights controules,
And makes one little roome, an everywhere­ .