The Tones The Sun Rising and To His Coy Mistress
The sun rising
John Donne (1572-1631)
I feel that this poem is written from a perspective that gives the sun
power, however it also makes the king sound of great power and
importance almost to rival the sun. I am incline to believe that the
poet would or might have been commissioned by the king to write poems,
so that fact that the king is seen as all powerful in the poem would
please him. I believe that the poem and its individual verses give a
different aura for each of themselves. The first verse is written as
the sun is rising and waking the people. The middle verse is inclining
to almost asking questions towards the sun as if it makes a nuisance
of itself, it furthermore tries to demonstrate how needed the sun is.
In the third verse it rounds off the poem by making clear-cut imagery
for the reader, again it says how the sun is both powerful and wanted
on our world.
I would like to think of the poem as an artists canvas he has begun my
painting the background and setting the tone for the unravelling aura
that will be created, by the latter more detailed and descriptive
verses; he then picks a finer brush and narrows the focal point to
almost the figure of the sun which is now predominant in the canvas
but as a body of a person set in the middle of his Hessian. Now the
tone of the painting has been set he then continues this tone by
adding a face to his figure, which now towers in the image that the
painting creates and it shows a foremost focal point that is
influential yet refined and sought after.
There are rhyming couples through-out the poem which have a stru...
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poem up and would make a stronger image.
The last two lines in the poem are the most effective in giving a
atmosphere that the sun is all powerful, this then indents in your
mind and makes you think about the poem more and perhaps read it
again, to understand it more wholly. "Shine here to us, and thou art
everywhere; this bed thy centre is, these wall my sphere." Here the
poet is saying that the sun is so powerful that it can reach his world
these wall his sphere these walls his world and the bed is his centre
this bed his middle like the planets core o the planets heart and he
is saying that the sun touches his heart.
I propose that the fundamental focus and point of the poem is to make
the reader think about how mighty the sun is and what it does to us
and that we cant get away from it and its always there.
From the very first word of the poem, there is a command coming from an unnamed speaker. This establishes a sense of authority and gives the speaker a dominant position where they are dictating the poem to the reader rather than a collaborative interacti...
Despite the beauty described in the first few stanzas of the poem, it was the feeling of doubt and pondering that approached at the end of the poem that truly was the most thought provoking. Instead of just writing of beauty, Poets must realize that they may be leading people to false ideals, and in doing so that they may actually be causing individuals to believe in something that is nothing more than a dream. This realization makes the image of the questioning poet by far the most important in the piece.
654, line 1&2). The sunlight motion suggesting a “balance of upward and downward, rising and falling” (Harris, J. 2004), resplendent in nature and indirectly influences the reader spiritually and emotionally. Jane Kenyon’s Let Evening Come (1990), uses sunlight to project an image of a slow moving late afternoon sun, which will soon slip into the darkness of night. The light through the “chinks in the barn” (Kenyon, 1990, pg. 654, line 2), gives me the sense of an aging body and soul fading into the darkness.
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is a poem about the nature of creation, much as is his earlier poem from
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of the speaker through out the poem. One Art is a poem about inevitable loss and the incognizant
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The tone of the poem is one of reflection and possibly regret, The narrator starts out as a man...
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... since it deals with the growth of the mind. Therefore, the poet uses syntax and form to emphasize on the important matters that occurred in each stanza.
“The Sun Rising” by John Donne is an aubade all about two lovers getting woken up by the sun when all they want to do is lay in bed all day. The entire poem is the speaker, presumably Donne himself, is talking to the sun and telling him to go away. This poem is broken into three stanzas with a rhyme scheme of ABBACDCDEE. Each of those stanzas represents what Donne is telling the sun to do, which is, to go away, I am stronger than you, and that he and his lover are the center of the world. He uses diction all throughout the poem to emphasize that the sun is not welcome in waking him and is lover and throughout all three stanzas to make his three points and to give the overall points of the poem. There are many metaphors used all through the poem and one overall metaphor.