I could eclipse and cloud them with a wink,īut that I would not lose her sight so long The result is a poem that does not flow especially well, but does properly convey the frustrated mindset of the narrator who only wants to be with his beloved. The first four lines, for instance, follow an ABBA pattern, but each line has a different syllable count.

Although it does rhyme, it does not follow any particular pattern from beginning to end. The structure of The Sun Rising is noticeably unusual. The last two lines, as well as the “us” in the third line, suggest that the speaker is not alone, but are rather waking up alongside a lover, and that because love is timeless, the rising sun should leave them alone, rather than force them to leave each other’s company in the bed.

The narrator begins to list off all of the other things the sun could be doing - reminding oversleeping schoolchildren that they are going to be later for school, beginning the day for noblemen, anything other than waking up the speaker and reminding that they need to begin their day. The “calling,” then, is simply the narrator and whomever they are with, that it is morning. It rises, and shines through the edges of curtains. It is immediately obvious that personification is going to play an important role in this poem when the titular object - the sun - is referred to as an “unruly,” “busy old fool.” The sun is calling to the narrator of The Sun Rising “through windows, and through curtains” - which is what the sun does, after all. Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time. Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime, Go tell court huntsmen that the king will ride, Through windows, and through curtains call on us? Written at some point during the life of Donne (it isn’t clear when, though he lived from 1572 to 1631), it remains an interesting piece of literature today. Despite the fact that societies have progressed and changed a great deal since poems such as The Sun Rising were written by John Donne, the emotions and ideas that fuel such works are strong enough and relatable enough that those poems, despite their context existing in a time long past, are very much a topic of interest even today. Although there have been a great many influential writers, thinkers, and poets over the course of time, many of the topics of the oldest poems remain relevant and interesting to readers today.

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