The Sunne Rising Analysis Busy old fool unruly

The Sunne Rising Analysis

• Busy old fool, unruly sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows, and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run? 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. • • 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; If her eyes have not blinded thine, Look, and tomorrow late, tell me, Whether both th' Indias of spice and mine Be where thou leftst them, or lie here with me. Ask for those kings whom thou saw'st yesterday, And thou shalt hear, All here in one bed lay. • • She's all states, and all princes, I, Nothing else is. Princes do but play us; compared to this, All honor's mimic, all wealth alchemy. Thou, sun, art half as happy as we, In that the world's contracted thus. Thine age asks ease, and since thy duties be To warm the world, that's done in warming us. Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere; This bed thy center is, these walls, thy sphere.

Themes and Ideas • Love is the supreme experience. • The poet proclaims to the sun and to the whole world that his love is the centre of the universe. • The perfection of their love reduces the whole world to a perfect sphere in their bedroom. • Metaphysical poets investigate the world through witty and rational discussion. • Here, Donne returns to preenlightenment paradigms with the sun going around the earth. • He uses humor by personifying the sun as a bothersome, old man who intrudes on the lovers. Structure: 3 stanzas 1. He insults the sun and chides him for intruding into their perfect world. 2. He boasts he can shut out the sun with a wink, but chooses not to. Accepts the physical world. 3. Is kinder suggesting the sun illuminate his microcosm of his room to which the world has been reduced through the power of his love.

Stanza 1 Metaphor: these are things that separate lovers form the outside world. • Busy old fool, unruly sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows, and through curtains call on us? Conceit comparing Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run? the sun to an old busybody. Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide Late school boys and sour prentices, Go tell court huntsmen that the king will ride, Alliteration: repeating harsh sounds. Creates an angry Call country ants to harvest offices, Love doesn’t respond to tone. time Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime, Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time. Personification of the sun as an unwelcome intruder. The tone is annoyance

Stanza 2 Conceit of his eye and eyelid compared to his room and window shade. Metaphor of the treasures of the world and his lover. Tone changes to sarcasm and arrogance • 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; Despite his arrogance, he chooses not do this. If her eyes have not blinded thine, Look, and tomorrow late, tell me, Whether both th' Indias of spice and mine Be where thou leftst them, or lie here with me. Ask for those kings whom thou saw'st yesterday, And thou shalt hear, All here in one bed lay. He evokes the metaphysical theme of exploration and discovery

Stanza 3 Hyperbolic metaphor Conceit and personification continued. Sun is feeble, so warm only us in our microcosm. Tone changes to conciliatory • She's all states, and all princes, I, Nothing else is. Princes do but play us; compared to this, Allusion to the false science of turning base metal into All honor's mimic, all wealth alchemy. gold. These are untrue. Thou, sun, art half as happy as we, In that the world's contracted thus. Thine age asks ease, and since thy duties be To warm the world, that's done in warming us. Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere; This bed thy center is, these walls, thy sphere. Symbolism: their bedroom is now a sphere; the perfect shape.