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The Sunne Rising, one of the Songs and Sonets, bears the marks characteristic of the young Donne¡¯s poetry. ... Not only is The Sunne Rising meant to be a bold love poem; it can be also seen as an audacious anti-Petrarchan and anti-Spenserian manifesto. ...
It is noteworthy that the metrical line of The Sunne Rising lacks the harmony typical of Spenser¡¯s poetry and yet the poem is structured extremely carefully. ...
The structure of The Sunne Rising shows high respect for metre and rhyme, even though it collides with the Spenserian verse. ... Leishman points out that the rejection of traditional, sublime and poetic diction is characteristic of The Sunne Rising (189). ... In stanza 2 Donne is still arrogant, but by the last stanza he unites love and the sun:
Thou sunne art halfe as happyas wee,
In that the worlds contracted thus;
Thine ages askes ease, and since thy duties bee
To warme the world, thats done in warming us. ... The very first verse of The Sunne Rising reveals irony: the sun, now standing still in heliocentric space, is called "busie olde foole", the name that would be far more adequate for the old geocentric notion of the cosmos. ... Andrew Sanders considers The Sunne Rising to be Donne¡¯s "celebration of eroticism" (199), while N. ... Indeed, in The Sunne Rising, love is completely unconditional:
Sheis all States, and all Princes, I,
Nothing else is. ... In The Sunne Rising the poet also expresses his disdain for time as love¡¯s enemy. ... In The Sunne Rising, he combines his protest against rationality with his intelligence and education.
Approximate Word count = 1661
Approximate Pages = 6.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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