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The Sun Rising - Coggle Diagram
The Sun Rising
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'Busy old fool, unruly sun. Why dost thou thus, through windows, and through curtains call on us?
apostrophises the sun. 'unruly' contradicts the fact that the sun follows the same pattern everyday. 'old' contrasts the sun to the young lovers. the harsh consonants emphasise Donne's hatred for the sun
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Saucy pedantic wretch
Donne berates the sun, calling it naughty
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love, all alike, no season knows nor clime, / nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time
love exists beyond time and is unchanging. the smaller units of time illustrate the sun trying to control every aspect of life. 'rags of time; is a metaphor suggesting that time is worthless and serves no purpose to the lovers
thy beams, so reverend and strong
praisng sun, undermines words with enjambment. religious language. sun is arrogant
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if her eyes have not blinded thine,/look, and tomorrow late, tell me,/ whether both th'Indies of spice and mine
the beauty and power of his lover's eyes compare to the sun and it's lack of being able to look around the world because she blinded him, the eyes are superior to the sun.
The Indies - multicultural imagery. she enriches him and other cultures are begging to be explored. AGE OF DISCOVERY (Donne and expeditions). Her eyes are like the gained wealth of the Indies. MICROCOSM
ask for those kings when thou saw'st yesterday,/ and thou shalt hear, all here in on bed lay
Donne is the king (microcosm). 'All' is personified through the capital A, elevating the lovers to a god like level.
she is all states,and all princes, I,/ nothing else is.
continues on royality imagery. Microcosm of universe. hierarchy. he is the ruler. 'nothing else', simplistic, no value
Princes do but play us; compared to this,/all honour's mimic, all wealth alchemy
semantic field of pretence. alchemy s a metaphysical trope. Donne is suggesting that all wealth is sought but never discovered, true wealth can only be found in his relationship. the other princes rule of little value but act as if it is valuable
thou, sun, art half as happy as we,/in that the world's contracted thus/thine ages asks ease, and since thy duties be/ to warm the world, that's done in warming us.
the couple will always be happier than the sun. the sun will decline with age but their love never will
shine here to warm us, and thou art everywhere;/this bed thy center is, these walls the sphere.
microcosm, the bed is the whole world and the sun circles it. The walls are celestial. refences to the Tolemic universe; Earth is the centre of the world, God is the outer layer and the layers are held together by crystal spheres and the world is in harmony (catholic idea)
Structure
10 lines per stanza, uniform which mirrors unchanging love. looks like the sun is rising through the layout. regular iambic pentameter, sense of increasing the universal nature of their love. the regular rhyme represents the universal nature of their love. Dramatic monologue and aubade, elevates the poetic voice in terms of power.
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