John Donne : "The Sunne Rising"

1- who's the speaker and who's speaking to?

1- A lover is talking to the sun.

2- type of vocabulary (loving, violent, angry, etc)

It has a violent vocabulary, this you can see it from the very beginning.
(Busie old foole, unruly Sunne,Why dost thou thus,Through windowes,
and through curtaines call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?)


3- alliterations, metaphors, comparisons, assonances, personifications.

 Here you can find personificaton in the sense that the person who is speaking,
is giving human attributes to the sun, like to interrupt, or visit to someone.
Other example is in the lines where says: Thine age askes ease,saying that
he is old and must to have a rest.),or :

...Sawcy pedantique wretch, goe chide

 Late school boyes, and sowre prentices,

 Goe tell Court-huntsmen, that the King will ride, Call countrey ants
to harvest offices,...(telling to the sun to go and talk or tell the news
that the king will ride, and to speak with the ants so they start they work,etc.)

Metaphor: Why dost thou thus, Through windowes, and through curtaines call on us?

Must to thy motions lovers seasons run? (the sunshine is always giving the new that
is the end of the night, and in this case, the end of the time to the lovers
of being together.)

...Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere;

This bed thy center is, these walls, thy spheare...

Alliterations : Call countrey ... Love, all alike... could eclipse and cloud them with a winke... Thou sunne art halfe as happy’as wee... Thine age askes ease... To warme the world.


Comparison: Princes doe but play us; compar’d to this,All honor’s mimique; All wealth alchimie.


4- what's the poem about?

This poem is about the beginning of the day and the dislike of somebody
because of this, due it is the end of the time for lovers for being together,
The night has always represented the evil as well as the dark and the romantic,
and the day, the end of it. So in this case marks the end of a season for love.



... it is a very strong poem, where you can see in a very interesting way, the desire of a lover for the sun not to come, but understanding at the end, after express his feelings, the meaning and importance of its
arrive, and finally telling to the sun to shine for the lovers, and that it will be welcome inside the room.
A very good poem, although it was difficult to understand and analyze, the meaning and the passion that the speaker shows, makes it more interesting and difficult to stop reading it.