The Sunne Rising - Analysis

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The Sunne Rising - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - (John Donne) The Sunne Rising is one of most noted metaphysical love poem. It is a beautiful example of AUBADE or a “Dawn Poem”. Analysis: ------------ Busie old foole, unruly Sunne, Why dost thou thus, Through windowes, and through curtaines, call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run? >> Lying in bed with his lover, the speaker blames the rising sun, calling it a "busy old fool," and asking why it must bother them through windows and curtains. Love is not subject to season or to time, he says. Sawcy pedantique wretch, goe chide Late schoole boyes, and sowre prentices, Goe tell Court-huntsmen, that the king will ride, Call countrey ants to harvest offices; Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clyme, Nor houres, dayes, months, which are the rags of time. >> Here the poet admonishes the SUN “Saucy pedantic wretch” to go and bother late school boys and sour (unpleasant) apprentices, to tell the court huntsmen that the King (James I) is ready to go hunting, to call (wake) the peasants to go harvesting. Here the poet compares the laborious ants to the peasants in their activities. Love is the most important thing and cannot be bothered. Love is eternal and doesn’t know the rags of time such as: seasons, months, days, hours. Thy beames, so reverend, and strong Why shouldst thou thinke? I could eclipse and cloud them with a winke, But that I would not lose her sight so long: >> Here the speaker is still addressing to the sun questioning his power. What makes you think that your beam are so strong when I could eclipse (shut) them by simply closing my eyes. If he (the lover) doesn’t do it is simply not to lose the sight of his beloved for even an instant. If her eyes have

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