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John Donnę - “The Sun Rising

-    John Donnę introduces a completely new way of writing - metaphysical poetry.

-    Metaphysical poetry has an offensive language. connected with unbeautiful things. poetry of paradoxes

Differentfrom Elizabethan fashion, where:

-    Smooth. fluent, melodious, clarity, ideał harmony. melodiousness, easy to follow;

-    The rule of decorum;

-    Sun= beauty, light, gold, perfection.

-    The main character there was shepherds/shepherdesses

In here:

Language is completely different, colloquial. every word is unpoetic; lying in bed with his lover. the speaker chides the rising sun, callmg it a"busy old fooT (colloquial) and askmg why it must bother them through Windows and curtains Love is not subjectto season or to dme. he says. and he admomshes the sun—the “Saucy pedantic wretch"—to go and bother late schoolboys and sour apprentices. to tell the court-huntsmen that the King will ride. and to cali the country ants to their haivesting.

-    Sun = offence. abuse

The Sun is conscious and has the watchful personality of an old busybody.

He curses the sun cause he doesn't want the day to begin. The world is contracted to the world in which they live. A very concrete, specific situation is happening, which is also ordinary, normal and usual. The idea of mghtfor lovers trying to persuade the sun to realize that

-    Day = get up. time is flowing, there s work to do

-    Bed = world

Indians:

‘LooK and to-morrow late tell me,

Whether both th‘ Indias of spice and minę Be where thou left'st them, or He here with me '

Indians colonies (British colonies in India, not the American ones)

He asks the sun to tell him whether the treasures of India are in the same place they occupied yesterday or if they are now in bed with the speaker.