The Good-Morrow

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

help

Asked by
Last updated by Cat
1 Answers
Log in to answer

In the poem's second stanza, the speaker introduces the idea of the two lovers as one another's entire "world" (line 14). He brings up the idea of real-world explorers as an example of what he and his lover do not have to do or be--because the world outside of their "one little room" no longer matters (line 11). The bedroom in which they wake together is now their "everywhere," and they will each be content to simply explore the world the other represents (line 11)