The Sun Rising

1. The Sun Rising
JOHN DONNE
Department of English , MKUB
Prepared by Khushi Rathod

2. Name :- Khushi R. Rathod
Roll No :- 25
Enrollment No :- 5108230039
Semester :- 1
Paper No :- 101
Paper Code :- 22392
Paper Name :- Literature of the Elizabethan and Restoration Periods
Topic :- “The Sun Rising ” by John Donne
Presented at :- Smt.S.B.Gardi,Department of English,MKBU
E-mail :- khushirathod1863@gmail.com
Personal Information

3. Table of contents
About the JOHN DONNE
About the Poem
6
Themes Conclusion
John Donne’S
Poem
Introduction
5
1 2 3
4

4. Introduction :-
● ‘Meta’ means “beyond” and “physics” means “physical nature”.
● It was Dryden who first used the word, “Metaphysical” in connection with Donne’s
poetry and wrote, Donne affects the “Metaphysics” .
● Ever since the word, Metaphysical has been used for Donne and his followers.
● Donne is metaphysical not only by virtue of his scholastic but by his deep
reflective interest in the experience of which his poetry is the expression.
● Metaphysical poetry represents the splendid and thorough amalgamation of
intellect and emotion, creative wit and sharp humor so as to accustom the readers
with a new model of poetic excellence.

5. JOHN DONNE
(1572 - 1631)
Born :- 1572, London, England
Died :- 31 March, 1631,London, England
Occupation :- Poet, Priest, Lawyer
Literary Movement :- Metaphysical
Poetry
Literary Period :- Renaissance

6. Poems :-
Death Be Not Proud
(Published :- 1633)
The Flea
(Published :-1633)
Ecstasy
(Published :- 1633)

7. The Sun Rising
● Written by John Donne.
● Originally name :- “The Sunne Rising”
● Publish :- 1633
● Poem divided Three Stanza
● Total lines : 30 lines
● Each stanza divided 10 lines

8. Buy old fool, unruly Sun,
Why dost thou thus,
Through windows, and through curtains, call on us?
Must to thy motions lovers’ seasons run?
Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide
Late schoolboys, and sour prentices,
Go tell court-huntsmen that the king will ride,
Call country ants to harvest offices,
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime,
Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
First Stanza :-
● The speaker has a go at the sun for invasion of privacy and declares
that love isn’t subject to the everyday routines, and is certainly no slave
to time.

9. Thy beams, so reverend and strong
Why shouldst thou think?
I could eclipse and cloud them with a wink,
But that I would not lose her sight so long:
If her eyes have not blinded thine,
Look, and tomorrow late, tell me
Whether both the ‘Indias of spice and mine
Be where you leftst them, or lie here with me.
Ask for those kings whom thou saw’st yesterday ,
And thou shalt hear : “ All here in one bed lay.”
Second Stanza :-
● Helplessly in love with his mistress/wife , the speaker rather
arrogantly belittles the sun by suggesting that his bed is the place to
be.

10. She’ is all states, and all princess I,
Nothing else is.
Princes do but play us; compar’d to this,
All honour’s mimic, all wealth alchemy.
Thou, sun, art half as happy’as we,
In that the world’s contracted thus;
Thine age asks ease, and since thy duties be
To warm the world, that’s done in warming us.
Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere;
This bed thy centre is, these walls, thy sphere.
Third Stanza :-
● The bed and the lovers are a microcosm of the universe, according to the
speaker, who in the end invites the sun to become a part of the whole.

11. Themes :-
1. Love Surpasses Time
2. The portrayal of His Beloved

12. Conclusion :-
Donne uses the sun as a metaphor for the outside
world, which he sees as an intrusion on his and his
lover's private world of love. He asserts the
supremacy of love over all other things, and
commands the sun to obey his wishes.

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