Light and Sight in the Good Tomorrow John Donne's poetry deals with the themes of creation and discovery. In his work "The Good-Morrow", these themes are discussed through the use of poetic symbols. Donne places greater emphasis on the sense of sight as a means of discovering pure love. The first stanza contains images of sleep and, more generally, the ways in which one can close one's eyes to the world. Donne uses phrases such as "unweaned" (2), "infantile" (3), and "dream" (7), to suggest the idea that when one's eyes are closed, there is something more than just light coming through. denied the sense of sight. In the visual example provided, his images go beyond what is normally associated with the absence of light. Figuratively, the narrator speaks of the light that comes from knowing the ways of the world. In this sense, “dreaming” about someone is looking at an illusion (7). This presents an interesting paradox. When we talk about blindness and vision problems, we necessarily assume that some type of light is present. Sight only comes into play when someone is denied vision or given the privilege of vision in the material world. For the speaker, a world without the presence of light has no concept of basic form. The last two lines of the first stanza deal with this issue. Those lines state, “If ever I saw any beauty, / That I desired and obtained, it was but a dream of yours.” (6-7) Although the speaker is in a place where there is no light, in the sleeping dream world shades of "beauty" have come to him, and he has mistaken them for the true light of beauty introduced in the next stanza . Throughout the second stanza, images awakening in the world of day replace the dark images of sleep......at the center of the card......Through the act of looking, the outside world can be seen as a direct manifestation of the power of true love. The opening line of this stanza reads, “My face in your eyes, yours appears in mine,” (15). Giving the reader an image showing the circular reflection of a face within an eye suggests the shape of a world existing in the speaker's gaze. The reflected image is actually a world of potential, full of the hope of love, creating a light of its own. The last lines of the poem allude to this: “If our two loves were one, or you and I/Love so alike that no one slackens, no one can die.” (20-1) The speaker, and perhaps Donne himself, is given the power of eternal life through the love he finds in his partner's eyes. Their "two loves" are truly "one" if, by the grace of each other's feelings, they can imagine a life together where "no one can die".”