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Summary The sun rising - John Donne
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- English Home Language
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- 12th Grade
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The speaker addressesthe sun directly,
calling it a "busy old
fool" and "unruly," The speaker instructs
indicating its the sun to bother those
who live by rigid
interference with his
private moments.
Busy old fool, unruly Sun, 1 schedules, such as late
schoolboys, disgruntled
He questions the sun's
intrusion through
Why dost thou thus, 2
apprentices, court
windows and curtains, 3Through windows and through curtains call on us? huntsmen, and diligent
asking why it disturbs workers like country
them.
The speaker
must to thy motions lovers' seasons run?
4
ants.
By listing these different
challenges the idea Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide
5 groups, the speaker
emphasizes that their
that lovers must
adhere to the sun's Late school-boys, and sour 'prentices,
6
activities are bound by
schedule, suggesting time and duty.
their love should be The speaker dismisses
independent of time. Go tell court-huntsmen that the King will ride,
7 conventional time-
He dismisses the sun keeping as insignificant
as a "saucy pedantic Call country ants to harvest offices;
8 "rags of time,"
wretch," telling it to underscoring the
go bother schoolboys Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime,
9 timeless and universal
and apprentices nature of true love.
instead. 10 Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
The speaker challenges
Donne acknowledges the
sun's powerful and
Thy beams, so reverend and strong
11 the sun to observe if
the valuable regions of
respected rays, Why shouldst thou think? 12 the world, such as the
questioning their spice-rich East Indies
assumed importance. I could eclipse and cloud them with a wink,
13
and the wealth-laden
He asserts his own ability
to diminish the sun's But that I would not lose her sight so long:
14 West Indies, are still in
their original places or
influence merely by
closing his eyes, a If her eyes have not blinded thine,
15 have been
testament to human metaphorically
capability over nature. Look, and tomorrow late tell me,
16 relocated to his bed,
This statement is emphasizing the
hyperbolic, emphasizing Whether both the Indias of spice and mine
17 significance of his love.
He suggests that the
the ease with which he
could block out the sun. 18 Be where thou left'st them, or lie here with me. sun inquire about the
prominent kings it saw
Donne reveals his choice 19
to keep his eyes open,
Ask for those kings whom thou saw'st yesterday, the previous day,
implying their
prioritizing the sight of
his beloved over dimming
And thou shalt hear, 'All here in one bed lay."
20
importance is now
the sun. trivial.
He suggests that his The speaker boasts
lover's eyes are so bright
that they might have
She's all States, and all Princes I;
21
that the kings,
symbolizing power and
already outshone and Nothing else is. 22 prestige, are
metaphorically present
blinded the sun itself.
Princes do but play us; compared to this,
23 in his bed, highlighting
the encompassing
The poet declares that his
lover embodies all the states, All honour's mimic; all wealth alchemy.
24 nature of his love.
and he himself encompasses
all princes, emphasizing their Thou, Sun, art half as happy as we,
25
The speaker suggests
that by being confined
significance and unity.
He asserts that nothing else In that the world's contracted thus;
26 to their intimate space,
the vastness of the
matters, suggesting the Thine age asks ease, and since thy duties be
27 world is centered
insignificance of the outside around their love.
world compared to their
love. To warm the world, that's done in warming us.
28 The sun, in its old age,
deserves rest, as its
Royal figures merely imitate
their profound relationship,
Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere;
29 duty to warm the world
is fulfilled simply by
rendering traditional
concepts of honor and
This bed thy centre is, these walls thy sphere.
30 warming them.
The speaker humorously
wealth as mere illusions and declares that if the sun
falsehoods. shines upon them, it is as
The sun is only half as happy if it shines everywhere,
as the lovers because their with their bed as its
love condenses the entire focal point and the
world into their intimate surrounding walls as its
space, making them more encompassing sphere.
fulfilled.
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