Sunday, March 19, 2017

Sunrise by John Donne

Sunrise by John Donne is a genius evidence of metaphysical poetry written by John donne as a pioneer of this school.the poem deals with the theme of love of  a lover for his beloved. it is an address of a lover to the rising sun in which the lover portrayed his beloved superior to the rising sun.
The lover addresses to sun as busy,old fool and unruley simply because it peeps through Windows and curtains into the bedroom of the lover. He is in the company of his beloved. The lover wants to make it clear that the season and time of lover can never be governed  by the sun. The lover instructs the rising sun to go apply it's force to late school children, workers,and employees of the court. Lovers do not accept the concept of time because months, years, days, hours are just rags of time. The lovers wants to convey a message  to the sun that lovers have nothing to do with either rising or setting of the sun.
The lover is not ready even to believe that the rays of the sun are powerful. It is possible for him to create an eclipse on the sun simply by closing his eyes but  he doesn't do that because  even for the moment he cannot  bear Lossing the site of his beloved. it is lover conviction that their is greater shine in the eyes of his beloved and if the sun looks at her eyes, the eyes of the sun would be dazzled.The lover menshions that after taking a round of the earth, the sun would realize real India of spycies in his bedroom in the form of his beloved.
The lover compairs his beloved with all the kingdom,states,princess,and princesses.one round of the earth would be enough for the sun to realize that the center of the earth is his beloved and giving light to  his beloved would be as good as the whole world.the lover is of the opinion that the sense of honour is just a mimic compared to his love for his beloved even love wealth is nothing.
The present poem is an attempt of donne to establish the place of love higher than the place of the sun. The metaphysical images employed  by the poet are sun,states,princes, princesses,India of spices and so on. It is an experiment of donne that he uses images from the field of politics and nature for the expression of love.

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