John Donne- The Sun Rising (2)

The speaker demands concession for “lovers’ seasons,” and the exasperated tone shifts to idealistic as he claims that lovers are not subject to the conventions and obligations of Time: “Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime,/Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.”
The speaker uses rhetorical questions to undermine the sun’s power: “Thy beams, so reverend and strong/Why shouldst thou think?”
In contrast to other love poems, the female lover’s physical form is not drawn to the reader’s immediate attention; however, the speaker claims he “could eclipse and cloud [the sun] with a wink,/But that I would not lose her sight so long.”
The speaker’s confidence increases as he boasts of his riches, rejecting material wealth in favour of the riches of his lover’s presence: “Look, and tomorrow late, tell me,/Whether both th’Indias of spice…

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