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The Sun Rising Poem analysis
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The speaker wants to bend the rules of the universe. Rather than allowing the sun's "motions"across the sky to govern the way the speaker spends his time, the speaker challenges the sun's
authority and claims that love gives him (the speaker) the power to stay in bed all day with his lover.
Sun being
The Sun Rising
Rhetorical Questions
APOSTROPHIZED and
Apostrophe Speaks with disdain (contempt) PERSONIFIED.
used to Busy old fool, unruly sun, Speaker chides (scolds) the sun.
show The Sun The COMBINATION of apostrophe and a rhetorical
Why dost thou thus, Speaker + Lover
writers question allows the speaker to create a platform for
power over
Through windows, and through curtains call on us? himself to lecture the sun at length, with no
the Sun. Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run? scold Begins listing all the other things interruptions.
hag
The sun dictates the new Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide the sun could be doing.
Negative - Apprentices
morning. Late school boys and sour prentices, Lower case indicates the speaker is more superior than
Sassy
Go tell court huntsmen that the king will ride, the King.
demanding Call country ants to harvest offices, → Alliteration; harsh shound
climate
Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime, Rhyming couplet: emphasises the relationship between
the speaker and the lover
Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time. = A figure of speech: things are passing and unmaterial.
His heavenly body Worthy of high respect
Thy beams, so reverend and strong
can shadow the Sun. “Why should you regard your rays as so strong and
Why shouldst thou think? People of Earth
Blocking it’s rays. sacred?”
I could eclipse and cloud them with a wink, The narrator wants to shut the sun out of existence.
But that I would not lose her sight so long; He doesn’t want to wink, because he doesn’t want to lose
Are so bright; they sight of his beloved, even for the short duration of a wink.
If her eyes have not blinded thine,
could impress the sun Thus, he is forced to accept the presence of the rising sun.
Look, and tomorrow late, tell me,
Connection Whether both th' Indias of spice and mine Explanation below
metaphor Be where thou leftst them, or lie here with me. The Sun will find both these Indies in his
Compares Ask for those kings whom thou saw'st yesterday, bed, (because his Sweet-heart is both
himself to a And thou shalt hear, All here in one bed lay. spice and gold mine to him). He ELEVATES
King. himself.
The world
metaphor Speaker
She's all states, and all princes, I,
Nothing else is. ➔ nothing else exists while the two are together.
Princes do but play us; compared to this,
Magical
Their love
All honor's mimic, all wealth alchemy. Honour and wealth become meaningless; princes seem poor
Thou, sun, art half as happy as we, when compared to what they have.
In that the world's contracted thus. The sun is employed by people/ the world revolves around
the lovers.
alliteration Thine age asks ease, and since thy duties be He thinks he is at the centre of the universe -
Sense of To warm the world, that's done in warming us. creates a cynical tone
acceptance. Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere; Suggests that the narrator’s universe consists of two people
This bed thy center is, these walls, thy sphere. and one room only — that bed is the centre of the universe,
and the walls of the room are its edge, and so when that
Metaphorically speaking that their lives are elevated room is warmed, the whole of the world is to them.
(above others)
First 3 lines…
Establish the relationship and tension among
the three entities of the poem: the speaker, his
lover, and the sun. Whether both th' Indias of spice and mine:
= East Indies for spices and the West Indies for gold.
The speaker uses “thou” instead of “you” when
Line means: “Tell me whether both the East and the West
referring to the sun. By calling the Sun “thou”, the
Indies, which are noted for their spices and mines respectively,
speaker implies that the sun is an inferior being
be there where you (the sun) left them after the Sun has been
who owes the speaker respect and obedience. trapped by the speaker’s lover’s eyes.” This suggests everything
Where as “you” was more formal/ polite. will run exactly as it’s supposed to whether they leave their bed
or not.
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