The Sun Rising
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- Created on: 21-02-15 12:31
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- The Sun Rising
- first two stanzas start with a question
- "why dost thou...call on us?"
- "thou beams so reverend and strong,/ Why shouldest thou think?"
- why are you so powerful? is he asking the point of it? or about self worth?
- the sun is a pestering disturbance
- "Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide/ Late schoolboys and Sour prentices/ Go tell court huntsmen the king will ride, / call country ants"
- no discrimination - sun effects everyone and is associated with negative everyday actions
- listing
- Death be not Proud
- A Nocturnal
- Busy old fool, unruly Sun
- almost as if telling off a naughty child
- aubade , two lovers reflecting
- direct and petulant
- begins with a trochee
- second last line also: "shine here to us"
- begins with a trochee
- "Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide/ Late schoolboys and Sour prentices/ Go tell court huntsmen the king will ride, / call country ants"
- no discrimination - sun effects everyone and is associated with negative everyday actions
- listing
- Death be not Proud
- A Nocturnal
- begins with a trochee
- second last line also: "shine here to us"
- "Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide/ Late schoolboys and Sour prentices/ Go tell court huntsmen the king will ride, / call country ants"
- Donne's power/superiority over the sun
- 'I could eclipse and cloud them with a wink'
- the brevity of wink - who really has more power...
- Thou sun art half as happy'as we
- Donne challenges the sun's importance
- is he saying personal love is more important than power?
- "thy duties be/ To warm the world, that's done in warming us"
- Donne concludes with the idea that although the sun is vital - it is still serving human needs
- This bed thy centre is, these walls, thy sphere
- Donne concludes with the idea that although the sun is vital - it is still serving human needs
- Donne is at least more superior than the rest of the world
- we're the sun, our warmth - the light of our relationship
- their bed is the core of warmth - the reason the sun rotates
- 'I could eclipse and cloud them with a wink'
- Donne and his lady are the centre of the universe
- "both the Indias of spice and mine/ Be where thou left'st them, or lie here with me"
- everything moves to them and their bed
- "She's all states, and all princes I,/ Nothing else is."
- power over her combined with the conclusive brevity of nothing else is
- "Princes do but play us"
- Donne defies natural authority
- despite Donne's male sexuality over powering her- their image is one
- "both the Indias of spice and mine/ Be where thou left'st them, or lie here with me"
- Carol Rumens: he restores the medieval concept of the heavens, in which the Earth rules supreme
- Carol Rumens: These hints of "scenery" are like windows in the hyperbole: they are glimpses of reality
- Carol Rumens: These hints of "scenery" are like windows in the hyperbole: they are glimpses of reality
- line 1,5 and 6 = iambic tetrameter the rest are iambic pentameter.
- first two stanzas start with a question
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