The Sun Rising by John Donne - Book Report/Review Example

He symbolically pushes the sun away, informing it to "go chide / Late schoolboys, and sour prentices, / Go tell court-huntsmen, that the king will ride" (5-7). Without a doubt, the sun is instructed to search for these individuals for the reason that its exploration will render the character to be free from its "motions." Though, the influential language of the first verse starts to collapse early within the second verse, as the character appears to disregard the love standards that he is in search of.

Commenting on the plainness of avoiding the sun's disturbing beams, the character declares, "I could eclipse and cloud them with a wink, / But that I would not lose her sight so long" (13-14). By means of closing his eyes, he eliminates the outer world from his inner world of love. This portion of his style is still persuasive, for the readers can recognize that the eye performs like the window of the 1st verse. The final two lines of the second verse and the opening two lines of the third verse continue to clear the character's language taking apart itself.

After commanding the sun for the second time to leave and connect with the social area, he remarks, "Ask for those kings whom thou saw' st yesterday, / And thou shalt hear, all here in one bed lay" (19-20). While earlier the character instructs the sun to go because he wants to be an alone lover not noticing the time, here the poet asserts that the social area is inside his bed. He attempts to use language so as to assert love's dominance towards the outside world, but by accepting time restrictions and the social area he finally supports the arrangements that he hopes to destabilize.

The final verse accomplishes the devastation of his effort. As formerly said, the character sets up a detention/openness resistance, favoring to be enclosed inside a microcosmic world of love. Nevertheless, this notion is dismantled when the character called upon everything within the external world towards his room. "In that, the world's contracted thus; Thine age asks ease, and since thy duties are, To warm the world, that's done in warming us. Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere; This bed thy center is, these walls, thy sphere.' (26-30)The character's argument concludes with the theory that the whole physical world inhabits his microcosm.

He along with his lover is the core of this new dimension, and their love exceeds the physical restrictions of the outside world.