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Metaphysical Poetry: Analysis of John Donne's 'The Sun Rising', Lecture notes of Literature

Completeness of love. Donne's values are prevalent about putting love above the natural order. His personal and contextual orders are conflicting within ...

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POEM: THE SUN RISING
Value/Attitudes
Quote
Analysis
Love
“Love, all like, no season knows nor clime,
nor house, days, months, which are the
rags of time
“She’s all states, and all princes I; nothing
else is,”
“But that I would not lose her sight so
long. If her eyes have not blinded thine”
Completeness of love. Donne’s values are prevalent about putting love above
the natural order. His personal and contextual orders are conflicting within this
quote. He is breaking down the barriers of temporal and space through
metaphysical imagery (metaphysical logic) which is also portrayed through the
use of a conceit. His decentthe rejection/subversion/undermining of the
natural order. Love is atemporal; it is a form of being which cannot be
fragmented into ‘rags’: it is a form of being which is unified, seamless and
perfect.
Reference of geography and topography (“all states”) and is positioning himself
as a ruler or masterful position within the patriacol society.
Addressing all levels of society and the appearance of flattery within the poem.
Exultation of his love through the use of exaggeration
Overall analysis: The Highest love which men and women could know was
union of souls in which the soul counted for much more than the body.
Spirit
uality
winke”
“Thy beames, so reverend and strong”
Reminiscent of the eclipse of the day of crucifixion when Christ died, Donne
essentially assumes the role of God, an extreme conceit
Neo-Platonic: Theories of body and soul are prevalent in this quote.
Death
“Looke, and tomorrow late, tell mee”
The Nature of the
Word/Universe
“Busy old fool, unruly Sun”
Use of irony as ‘unruly sun’ is described as irregular. There is a definite tone of
irritation. Capitalisation on S of the Sun is personify the sun. There is also a use
of hyperbole (exaggeration) and we see the beginning of how the Sun is being
inverted with the significance of love.
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POEM: THE SUN RISING

Value/Attitudes Quote Analysis Love “Love, all like, no season knows nor clime, nor house, days, months, which are the rags of time “She’s all states, and all princes I; nothing else is,” “But that I would not lose her sight so long. If her eyes have not blinded thine” Completeness of love. Donne’s values are prevalent about putting love above the natural order. His personal and contextual orders are conflicting within this quote. He is breaking down the barriers of temporal and space through metaphysical imagery (metaphysical logic) which is also portrayed through the use of a conceit. His decent the rejection/subversion/undermining of the natural order. Love is atemporal; it is a form of being which cannot be fragmented into ‘rags’: it is a form of being which is unified, seamless and perfect. Reference of geography and topography (“all states”) and is positioning himself as a ruler or masterful position within the patriacol society. Addressing all levels of society and the appearance of flattery within the poem. Exultation of his love through the use of exaggeration Overall analysis: The Highest love which men and women could know was union of souls in which the soul counted for much more than the body. Spirituality “I could eclipse and cloud them with a winke” “Thy beames, so reverend and strong” Reminiscent of the eclipse of the day of crucifixion when Christ died, Donne essentially assumes the role of God, an extreme conceit Neo-Platonic: Theories of body and soul are prevalent in this quote. Death “Looke, and tomorrow late, tell mee” The Nature of the Word/Universe “Busy old fool, unruly Sun” Use of irony as ‘unruly sun’ is described as irregular. There is a definite tone of irritation. Capitalisation on S of the Sun is personify the sun. There is also a use of hyperbole (exaggeration) and we see the beginning of how the Sun is being inverted with the significance of love.

“Saucy, pedantic wretch, go chide” Whether both the India’s of spice and Myne” Donne’s writing follows the form of natural speech. Implying that the lovers, however are doubly insulated from all this by their shutters and the curtains of their four-poster bed. To them the sun is officious (‘buisie) stupid, presumptuous (‘sawcy’) and ‘pedantique’ like an old disciplinarian in school: he is limited in his understanding. He can have no jurisdiction over the lovers; he is contemptible old wretch (the sun), ‘unruly’ and quite out of order. Topography reference. Referring to an exotic place, Intertextuality illusion. Knowledge and Science “Must thy motions lovers’ season run?” “Must thy motions lovers seasons run?” “Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere; This bed thy centre is, these walls, thy spheare” “All honour’s mimic, all wealth alchelmy” Rhetorical question, concept of time. Flippant and reproachful tone. Reference to scientific motions such as anatomy, space, gravity, space and time. Implying that the sun cannot control the lovers. Metaphysical Scientific examples transcending to abstract ideals. Inversion, subverting the cosmic order. Space and time has structured into a domestic sphere. Another geographical reference. Room is the centre of the world Reference to gold and chemistry Social order “aske for those Kings whom thou saw’st yesterday” “Goe tell Court-huntsment, that the King will Ride” Giving higher order. Connotative images and references to luxury. Social hierarchy: subverting (challenging) the universal social order). Hyperbolical (social order), Donne is trying to subvert the social order and implies that love is more important