The Sun Rising is a monologue to the Sun, in which the
narrator both exalts it and insults bringing with it a lot of descriptive and emotive
language that gears towards the necessity of the Sun in the lives of individuals,
similarly as one needs love, God, or any other power that is higher than
us.
In this poem, he first asks the Sunlight, just entering
his room, to go away. Apparently he is in love and is sharing his bed with his lover,
and seeing the sun rising makes him realize that its time to leave the bed, and face the
day. He asks for it to go somewhere where he is needed: At hunting parties, in places
where people want it to be daylight. But he doesn't.
Then,
he praises the sun for being the alseeing eye that lights up the planet, how we
gravitate towards it due to its might, and he compares the brightness of the sun and the
intensity of its heat and power to the love he feels for his lover, saying that nothing
can shine like their love, her eyes, everything.
In terms
of form, this poem is highly exaggerated (hyperbolic). It is rich in metaphor and
simile, and it accentuates the main ideas of romance, passion, and love by comparing all
three to the heat, brightness, and pull of the son as a massive star. It is one of the
most famous poems of John Donne, and certainly one of the richest in
language.
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