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    Notes On Donne's The Sun Rising

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    The document provides an analysis of John Donne's poem "The Sun Rising". It describes the poem as being richly figurative and depicting lovers in a bedroom after a night of love. The speaker addresses and questions the sun, saying love is indifferent to the sun's influences on the world. The analysis explains that the speaker dismisses the world's attitudes in favor of the attitude of love. It concludes that the poem uses a conceit to portray the lovers as being as complete in themselves as the entire world.

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    Notes On Donne's The Sun Rising

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    The document provides an analysis of John Donne's poem "The Sun Rising". It describes the poem as being richly figurative and depicting lovers in a bedroom after a night of love. The speaker addresses and questions the sun, saying love is indifferent to the sun's influences on the world. The analysis explains that the speaker dismisses the world's attitudes in favor of the attitude of love. It concludes that the poem uses a conceit to portray the lovers as being as complete in themselves as the entire world.

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    The document provides an analysis of John Donne's poem "The Sun Rising". It describes the poem as being richly figurative and depicting lovers in a bedroom after a night of love. The speaker addresses and questions the sun, saying love is indifferent to the sun's influences on the world. The analysis explains that the speaker dismisses the world's attitudes in favor of the attitude of love. It concludes that the poem uses a conceit to portray the lovers as being as complete in themselves as the entire world.

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    Notes On Donne's The Sun Rising

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    The document provides an analysis of John Donne's poem "The Sun Rising". It describes the poem as being richly figurative and depicting lovers in a bedroom after a night of love. The speaker addresses and questions the sun, saying love is indifferent to the sun's influences on the world. The analysis explains that the speaker dismisses the world's attitudes in favor of the attitude of love. It concludes that the poem uses a conceit to portray the lovers as being as complete in themselves as the entire world.

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    JOHN DONNE

    We have learnt to call a certain group of seventeenth-century English poets


    (Donne being one of them) “metaphysical” because of Dr. Samuel Johnson, the
    eighteenth-century critic, poet, and lexicographer, who complained that these poets used
    strained and unnatural language in which heterogeneous ideas were ‘yoked by violence
    together.’ Johnson’s adjective has struck to these poets, even though his criticism of them
    is not always accepted. Donne, in particular, has been a favourite of modern readers,
    perhaps because in his work the metaphysical impulse is always coloured by strong erotic
    or religious feeling. His love poetry is not Petrarchan ritual, nor is his religious poetry in
    any way perfunctory.

    “The Sun Rising”

    “The Sun Rising” is richly figurative. It is the utterance of a lover after a night of
    love (A picture of the lovers in a bedroom is suggested). The whole poem is an
    apostrophe to the sun, giving it a surprising and somewhat funny personification. In
    addressing the sun, questioning and commanding it, the speaker says in effect that love is
    indifferent to all the influences that the sun has upon the world. He is thus in a position
    like that of the speaker of “The Good Morrow.” He does not maintain or arrive at a
    complexity of attitudes, but he chooses one attitude from a complexity-- that of love, and
    dismisses the other-- the attitude of the world. This is said finally, at the end of the first
    stanza, with directness:

    Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime,


    Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

    The speaker continues to the effect that his love is complete in itself, as if it
    included everything in the world, everything under the sun. This is said in a conceit
    (learned imagery, often projecting a concept or an argument), the conceit being
    established at the end of the second stanza and extended through the third stanza, which
    is the final one. These lines, occurring within the conceit, will indicate the use of the
    metaphor:

    Thine age asks ease, and since thy duties be


    To warm the world, that’s done in warming us.

    Though the conceit makes up a fairly long passage, there is no ideological development
    in it; it says throughout that the lovers are in themselves as complete as the world, thus,
    by implication, contrasting two “worlds” of value.

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