The Sun Rising by John Donne - Notes

The Sun Rising by John Donne - Notes

Summary:

Synopsis:

Stanza 1
Stanza 2
Stanza 3

By the lover to the Sun

Stanza 1:

-The Sun seems to disturb the lovers in the morning.
-It is abused by the lover.
-He Asks to disturb others stating that lovers need not be bound by time.

Stanza 2:

-The lover asks the Sun not to believe its beams of light to be great
and strong because it can be stopped with just a wink of the eye but
does not want to do so in order not to lose the sight of his lady
love.
-His lady love's eyes are stronger than the Sun beams and can make it blind.
-If not he asks the Sun to look for itself, enquire with the Kings and
inform him the next day whether East Indies rich with spices and West
Indies rich with gold have shifted to this bed of the lovers or is
there where the Sun visited the previous day for which the Kings will
reply that all richness lay there in the bed.

Stanza 3:

-The lady love is compared to all States or Kingdoms and he considers
himself to be their corresponding princespossessing all of their
riches.
-Honours and wealth of the world other than these are fake and imitations.
-He asks the Sun to shine to them having their bed as its center and
the wall of the rooms its sphere or limit or universe and the
objective of the Sun to shine to the whole world will be fulfilled be
cause because the room is equal to the universe and their bed equal to
the world. The Sun's age also demands ease and so it can be happy.