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, Background - John Donne
• John Donne – pronounced "Dunn"
• He was born in London 1572 and died in 1631.
• His father had bequeathed him a sizable wealth.
• In 1617, while giving birth to their twelfth child, Anne Donne died. From then on, the poet's
would take on a sickening hue, and he died in 1631.
• The English poet wrote the sonnet "The Sun Rising." Throughout his life, Donne authored a
wide spectrum of social satire, sermons, holy sonnets, elegies, and love poems, and he is
arguably most recognized for the parallels between his sensual poetry and his religious poe
• Much of his writing, including "The Sun Rising," was published after his death in the collecti
Songs and Sonnets, published in 1633. In "The Sun Rising," the speaker urges the sun to wa
his bed so that he and his beloved may spend the entire day in bed rather of waking up to g
work.
• The poem's whimsical use of language and extended metaphor exemplify Donne's manner
throughout his writings, both sensual and sacred.
,Analysis
, Title
Definite article goin
incr
or s
The Sun Rising
upw
The Sun is a star which is located at
the center of our solar system
, Form and Structure
• This poem doesn’t have a specific form. We
acknowledge it as an aubade - a poem or song
spoken to a lover just as dawn is breaking,
presumably after a, shall we say, pleasant evening.
John Donne's "The Sun Rising" proclaims to the sun
and to the whole world that his love is the centre
of the universe. The poem is constructed of three
ten-line stanzas and each stanza is constructed the
same way.
• Lines 1, 5, and 6 of each stanza are iambic tetrameter,
meaning they have eight syllables with four of them
stressed.
• Line 2 is in dimeter, meaning it has four syllables, with two
stressed.
• The rest of the lines are the more standard iambic
pentameter—ten syllables, five stresses.
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