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    Analysis of The Poem THE SUN RISING by John Donne

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    This poem, "The Sun Rising" by John Donne, describes the speaker complaining to the sun for rising and disturbing his time in bed with his lover. Through three stanzas of varying meter and rhyme, the speaker challenges the sun's authority and claims his love gives him greater power than the sun. Literary devices like personification, apostrophe, metaphor, and hyperbole are used to elevate the speaker's love over the sun and suggest the bedroom is the couple's whole world. The analysis indicates this poem, though published after Donne's death, reflects his writings about intimate love within marriage.

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    This poem, "The Sun Rising" by John Donne, describes the speaker complaining to the sun for rising and disturbing his time in bed with his lover. Through three stanzas of varying meter and rhyme, the speaker challenges the sun's authority and claims his love gives him greater power than the sun. Literary devices like personification, apostrophe, metaphor, and hyperbole are used to elevate the speaker's love over the sun and suggest the bedroom is the couple's whole world. The analysis indicates this poem, though published after Donne's death, reflects his writings about intimate love within marriage.

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    This poem, "The Sun Rising" by John Donne, describes the speaker complaining to the sun for rising and disturbing his time in bed with his lover. Through three stanzas of varying meter and rhyme, the speaker challenges the sun's authority and claims his love gives him greater power than the sun. Literary devices like personification, apostrophe, metaphor, and hyperbole are used to elevate the speaker's love over the sun and suggest the bedroom is the couple's whole world. The analysis indicates this poem, though published after Donne's death, reflects his writings about intimate love within marriage.

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    Analysis of the poem THE SUN RISING by John

    Donne
    This poem is written by John Donne (1572-1631), he was an English poet who

    wrote a lot of poems of different genres like holy sonnets or love poems; he

    belongs to the metaphysical poets. This poem, “The Sun Rising”, belongs to the

    collection Song and Sonnets which was published after his death in 1633.

    In this poem the speaker is lying in bed with his lover complaining to the sun his

    appearance, challenging his authority and saying that his love gives him the

    energy to be with his lover in bed with the sun warming them all day long,

    instead of getting up to work. Also, the title gives the clue that the main matter

    of the poem is related with the sun rising.

    The first stanza talks about the speaker been angry with the sun for invading his

    bedroom, calming that he does not care if is time to get up.

    The second stanza talks about that the bed is the perfect place to be with his

    lover.

    The third stanza talks about his own world in the bed with his lover and invites

    the sun to become part of that world.

    This poem is form by three stanzas in which there are ten lines in each one, the

    stress pattern varies between iambic tetrameter, dimeter and pentameter. While
    the stress pattern is not a fix one, the rhyme scheme in each stanza is

    ABBACDCDEE.

    In the first stanza we can see the use of apostrophe (“Busy old fool, unruly sun”)

    in line 1 in which the speaker complains to the sun him appearing. Also, through

    all this poem we see the personification of the sun as in line 1 (“Busy old fool,

    unruly sun”). Then we see an assonance in line 9 (“Love, all alike, no season

    knows nor clime”) with the repetition of the sound /o/. All this is to emphasize

    that the sun has no power in them.

    In the second stanza we can see a rhetorical question in line 12 (“Why shouldst

    thou think?”) in which the sun is personified again, asking directly to him. then in

    line 13 (“I could eclipse and cloud them with a wink”), there is a hyperbole

    exaggerating that he has more power than the sun. Finally, a run-on-line in lines

    17-18 (“Whether both th’Indias of spice and mine / be where thou lefts them, or

    lie here with me”) this is to express a more extend idea that can not be break.

    Through all the poem the sun is a symbol but, in this stanza, it seen better

    because the speaker takes all the power to the sun and give all the power to the

    bedroom and their love.

    In the third stanza in line 21 (“She is all states, and all princes I,”) we can see a

    metaphor, the lovers are the princes of each other kingdom. Then in line 26 (“In

    that world’s contracted thus;”) we see a consonance with the repetition of the

    sound /t/. And finally, in line 30 (“This bed thy center is, these walls thy sphere.”)

    we see a metaphor, the lover’s room is their whole world.


    This poem, even though it was published after John Donne’s death, belongs to

    the time when Donne wrote about love, this poem refers to him and his wife

    Anne. Through all the rhetorical device we can see how the speaker faces the

    sun by taking away his power so he can continue enjoying his love in bed

    without being disturbed by anyone, nor by social norm; creating his own world

    with his lover.

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