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THE SUNNE RISING^ By^ John Donne^ (1572-1631)

The Sun Rising by John Donne

DAWN POEM †^ It is a love poetry popular in the^ Troubador

verse pf Provençe and the Languedoc

, in which lovers express their displeasure for the night’s end.

Seventeenth Century Poetry †^ How was Elizabethan poetry? †^ Elizabethan poetry was mainlymusical, descriptive and romantic. †^ It was formal †^ Responding to the decorum of thesonnet structure and continued thetradition of the chivalric courtly love

John Donne and^ the Metaphysical Poets^ †^ For Donne and the M.poets thedistance between subject and objectdisappears^ †^ The figure of the beloved is no longerremote, but^ †^ Actual^ †^ Close^ †^ Possessed

Metaphysical Imagination †^ The century was considered a †^ “warlike” †^ Various †^ Tragic †^ For these reasons the poetic languageconveys much of its turbolence andvariety

Metaphysical style †^ Metaphysical poetry can be definedby three important characteristics: †^ 1 – concentration †^ 2 – conceit †^ 3 - tone

Concentration †^ The metaphysical poem is usually ashort, concise poem which demandsintellectual attention in order tounderstand the meaning

Tone †^ The tone is colloquial †^ Direct and personal †^ Dramatic †^ Use of the “I voice”^ (surprising directness of the speaking voice – vivid^ speech) †^ The study of extraordinary thoughtsin ordinary situations.

Themes †^ Metaphysical poetry is veryimmediate and realistic †^ Describes love where love is returned †^ Physical, sensuous love †^ Anti-chivalric tradition

The Sun Rising Analysis †^ Saucy pedantic wretch go chide^ Late school-boys and sour prentices,^ Go tell court-huntsmen that the king will ride,^ Call country ants to harvest offices ;^ Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime,^ Nor hours, days, 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 (

unpleasent

) apprentices

The Sun Rising Analysis †^ To tell the court huntsmen that theKing (James I) is ready to go hunting. †^ To call (wake) the peasants to goharvesting †^ Here the poet compares the laboriousants to the peasants in theiractivities.

-^ Thy beams so reverend, and strong

Why shouldst thou think? I could eclipse and cloud them with a wink, But that I would not lose her sight so long.

-^ Here the speaker is still addressing to thesun questioning his power. •^ What makes you think that your beam areso strong when I could

eclipse (shut) them

by simply closing my eyes.

†^ If he (the lover) doesn’t do it is simplynot to lose the sight of his beloved foreven an istant.