The Sunne Rising

  The Sunne Rising

Question

1. Poets suggestion to the sun.

Answer:

    The Sun Rising" is a poem with three stanzas by poet John Donne. Lying in bed with his lover, the speaker chides the rising sun, calling it a “busy old fool,” and asking why it must bother them through windows and curtains.

 Donne, as biographical evidence suggests, was inherently a rebel against authority, particularly of the oppressive shackles of the social order. His refusal to obey the diktats of the social order and his subversion of the social hierarchy is tacitly but pointedly suggested in this poem. The speaker exhorts the sun to go and chide unwilling late schoolboys and apprentices who are terribly reluctant to join their works. Young children being forced to early morning school symbolize subjugation to authority. So also is the case with the "sour apprentices" dilly dallying with their work which too is strictly conditioned by timely attendance. The sun, symbolizing time, is an essential agent of that authority which conditions human work by time and strict punctual notions of attendance. The speaker avers that if the sun has any power, it is upon those who have to obey the laws of society fixed by authority. He also mentions country ants or agricultural labourers who, too, must obey the laws of time- bound activity. Thus if anyone who are within the orbit of the authority of the sun are either the common people or the those belonging to the highest scale of the social hierarchy.  

  All the above observation is further substantiated by the final assertion of the lover/speaker that all the material wealth and all the worldy powers of kings and princes combined together are concentrated in the world of love and this world, as Donne wrote in "The Good Morrow" is beyond death and decline.

2. How could poet prove sun weak?

Answer:  The Sun Rising" is a poem with three stanzas by poet John Donne. Lying in bed with his lover, the speaker chides the rising sun, calling it a “busy old fool,” and asking why it must bother them through windows and curtains.

    The poet personifies the sun as a “busy old fool” (line 1). He asks why it is shining in and disturbing “us” (4), who appear to be two lovers in bed. The sun is peeking through the curtains of the window of their bedroom, signaling the morning and the end of their time together. The speaker is annoyed, wishing that the day has not yet come (compare Juliet’s assurances that it is certainly not the morning, in Romeo and Juliet III.v). The poet then suggests that the sun go off and do other things rather than disturb them, such as going to tell the court huntsman that it is a day for the king to hunt, or to wake up ants, or to rush late schoolboys and apprentices to their duties. The poet wants to know why it is that “to thy motions lovers’ seasons run” (4). He imagines a world, or desires one, where the embraces of lovers are not relegated only to the night, but that lovers can make their own time as they see fit.

4. How can you get an idea of old ptolemaic system of universe of this poem.

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5. justification of the title?

Answer:

The Sun Rising" is a poem with three stanzas by poet John Donne. Lying in bed with his lover, the speaker chides the rising sun, calling it a “busy old fool,” and asking why it must bother them through windows and curtains.

John Donne is a really punny guy. Not only that, he wrote some deeply religious poems. So, at first glance, we're tempted to immediately assume that a poem titled "The Sun Rising" is going to be about the resurrection of Jesus. But with Donne, it's pretty much God, death, or women, and we figure out pretty quickly that there isn't much of a religious overtone to this one. And death never sets foot in these verses.

Still, the title does set the scene. Quite literally, actually. We know almost immediately that this poem will be in the tradition of the aubade, a poem or song written at dawn. This isn't just a sunrise poem, though; it's actually a direct address to the rising sun, an apostrophe.

Finally, we ought to notice the verb tense. It describes the present action of the sun. We are being dropped down into a moment as it is happening. We aren't supposed to be picturing some poet composing at a desk after the fact. We are supposed to picture these two lovers in an intimate moment, just as the first light begins to creep into their bedroom.

Explanation

 She's all states, and all princes, I,

               Nothing else is.

Princes do but play us; compared to this,

All honor's mimic, all wealth alchemy.

Answer: These lines have been taken from the poem “The Sunne Rising”.  In John Donne' poem  the sun is personified. The poem is a lyric poem with three stanzas.  Each stanza has two quatrains and a couplet. The narrator begins by degrading the sun for interfering with the couple's sleep.  How dare he intrude on our privacy!   Do we have to adjust our love movements to your moves? The narrator begins by degrading the sun for interfering with the couple's sleep.

  How dare he intrude on our privacy! Do we have to adjust our love movements to your moves?

        Again denigrating the sun, the narrator scolds the sun and tells him to bother school children or the kings huntsmen to get the king up to go hunting.  Wake the farmers to get started on the harvest...Leave us to our love. Love knows no seasons, time, or climate. Why do you think that your rays deserve any respect from us? Are you that powerful? If you were to look into the eyes of my lover, you would think that all of the beautiful spices of India were lying next to me.  Maybe her beauty has blinded you. If you shone on kings yesterday,  you will find them here next to me.

    She's all states, and all princes I.

           Nothing else is.

 In the speaker’s view, not only is the rest of society irrelevant, it’s also fake. This squares with someone who is infatuated, though. How could anyone think of doing paperwork when they’ve found true love?

     She is everything to me, and I am hers completely.  Nothing else matters.  Nothing else exists.

 If you were one half as happy as we are, then since it is your job to warm the world, do so. Our love warms us. But if you must, shine on us as well.  Our bed is the center of the world, and you must rotate around us. What a love poem!  The narrator believes that their love outshines the sun.  In essence, the poet believes that the last thing on earth that he wants to do is to leave his lover.

2.Thine age askes, and since thy duties bee

To warme the world, that's done in warming us.

Shine here to us and thou art everywhere;

This bed thy center is, these walls, thy sphere

Answer: These lines have been taken from the poem “The Sunne Rising”.  In John Donne' poem  the sun is personified. The poem is a lyric poem with three stanzas.  Each stanza has two quatrains and a couplet.

He tells the sun in line 27 of poem that the sun's weak old age demands that the sun take it easy. You know, in case the sun breaks a hip trying to make it over the Pacific Ocean in time for dawn the next day.

Donne brings back the idea of the sun being busy—the sun's "duties" include warming up the whole world.

Donne then becomes a used car salesman: "Look Mr. Sun, you're tired, you're busy, you don't want to run around all day trying to warm up the world. So I'm going to make you a deal—this one time only. You warm up the Mrs. and me right here in this bed and it'll warm up the whole rest of the world for you."

He's using the screwy logic of his metaphor to throw the sun a bone. If the whole world is here in this room, then the sun can linger right there and still do its job.

It may be a stretch to read this into this poem, but Donne really enjoyed making puns with his own name. Line 28 may have a hint of that: "By warming Donne, you're all done!"