Analysis of the Sun Rising, by Johne Donne

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‘The Sun Rising’ was a poem written by John Donne, in (*year*) His poems generally had their “periods” during which he wrote about love, religion, and death. He included paradoxes and metaphysical conceits. (*add other stuff vishant please*) This poem was written in the period of John Donne’s life during which his poetry was all about love and his love for his wife. This poem was also written during the period of time when women did not have rights and were regarded as “territory.” This is why in ‘The Sun Rising,’ Donne says that “She is all estates and all princes I,” to show that she is his territory over which he rules and needs to rules. In this poem, Donne talks to the Sun, telling it what a fool it is. In that period of time, the Sun was considered as God, and talking to God is the center of what Metaphysics is. The sun is considered a conscious object and has the wanting-to=know personality of a person. Also, love as the speaker puts it “…no season knows, nor climate,/Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.” Finally, Donne says that the speaker’s love affair is so important to the universe that kings and princes simply copy it, like the riches of spices, that the world is literally contained within their bedroom. In this poem, Johne Donne brings up three notable paradoxes. The first one is “old fool,” which is strange because aged people are usually considered wise. Another paradox is “Unruly sun” which is a paradox because the sun is one of the most predictable objects in a person’s life. The last paradox Donne brings up is “If her eyes have not blinded thin,” which does not make sense because eye’s see, and can not blind other eyes. The only major conceit in ‘The Sun Rising,” is when Donne says that if the sun wants to circle the whole world to provide warmth, it should stay where it is, because Donne’s bedroom with his wife is the whole
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