The Sun Rising

This is an interesting poem and i liked it a lot. I found it different that at the beginning the speaker calls it "unruly sun" when usually in poems the sun is a positive thing. The sun here is more directed towards being a negative thing which is unique. Something Donne does in this poem is he puts the two people in love at the center of the universe making everything around them, less important. He uses a lot of hyperboles to convey that logic is being opposed and to define the universe's point. Donne uses a lot of binary oppositions (which i learned about in EL267). These are two opposites like love/hate, man/woman etc. One interesting one is eternity and a moment. The seasons of the lovers are put against the seasons of the sun making it a contrast between eternity and a moment. The first stanza basically reveals that they want to be in a mutual love with no constraints of time or things around them causing the struggle between eternity and a moment.

Andrea Yarnell