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- A Hymn to God The Father
Enumerating his sins, the poem's speaker worries that God...
- The Canonization
The poem's speaker, a middle-aged man who has fallen deeply...
- The Apparition
1 When by thy scorn, O murd'ress, I am dead. 2 And that thou...
- The Triple Fool
Heartbroken by unrequited love, the poem's speaker tries to...
- The Flea
“The Flea” is a poem by the English poet John Donne, most...
- The Relic
"The Relic" is one of John Donne's passionate love songs—and...
- A Valediction
1 As virtuous men pass mildly away, . 2 And whisper to their...
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- A Hymn to God The Father
John Donne’s ‘The Sun Rising’ poignantly explores love’s timelessness, challenging the sun’s authority and highlighting love’s precedence over worldly concerns and duties.
In this case, the speaker addresses the personified Sun. The poem is narrated in the present tense as the Sun rises. This poem is an example of hyperbole, an exuberant exaggeration of the speaker's love, the second extended metaphor. The rhyme scheme for all three stanzas is abbacdcdee.
This poem is a dramatic monologue in which the speaker addresses the sun, personified as a disruptive force in the early morning.
13 maj 2024 · Introduction to John Donne’s Poem The Sun Rising. John Donne’s poem “The Sun Rising” originally its spelling is “The Sunne Rising” is a metaphysical love poem published in 1633. The poem is consist of thirty lines and three stanzas, and full of metaphysical imagery, conceits, and wits of John Donne.
Donne opens with a direct address to the sun. It is a dramatic and vivid start to the poem. Tone is insulting: he calls the sun a ‘Busy old fool’. Conceit is that the sun is an old man who rouses people from sleep and sends them off to work. The sun is chided for being ‘unruly’.
The Sun Rising. John Donne’s “The Sun Rising” was first published in Songs and Sonnets in 1633, during the English Renaissance. In the poem, the speaker claims power over the sun, which is personified as a “saucy pedantic wretch,” for rising and interrupting him as he lies in bed with his lover.
