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.
When Langston Hughes was given this assignment by his college professor, he used it at a self discovery tool. I think this poem is merely letting him dig into himself to find out who he really is, and what his role is in society.
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.
is a poem about the nature of creation, much as is his earlier poem from
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this poem. I believe it is mainly what the poem is about. To make the
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the way through the poem to the end. He does this because he thinks of
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Andrew Marvell successfully writes about a delicate subject without coming off as dirty or disrespectful to the subject of sexuality. Each stanza carries a different way of looking at the same subject. The way Marvell speaks in the first stanza shows that he is not being impetuous, that he does love his mistress. He creates a sense of timelessness and then in the second stanza he sweeps that away and introduces death as frightening but unavoidable. He realizes how precious time is and is very effective in convincing his mistress of this fact as well. The last lines leave the reader with the image of this couple conquering and taking advantage of time by making the sun run. This poem would not be what it is without the detailed imagery, symbolism, and metaphors that Marvell applied to each stanza.
In ‘The Sun Rising’ the tone and the language Donne uses when interacting with the sun at the beginning of the poem is demeaning and powerful starting immediately with ‘Busy old fool, unruly Sun’, which shows Donne addressing the sun directly and perhaps scalding the sun for disturbing the sleeping lovers. Donne shows what the experience of love means to him by expressing his dislike for the sunrise of ultimately a new day, which represents the separation of the couple after spending the night together. In the first stanza Donne asks direct rhetorical questions which enquire about the sun’s existence ‘Must to thy motions lovers’ seasons run? This proves that Donne disagrees with the fact that the sun controls what the lovers do. It is also important to note that Donne uses a capital when addressing the ‘Sun’ as if it is personified and highlighting its importance in the poem. He continues to address the sun’s actions and is most reprimanding when he states ‘Go tell court-huntsmen that the king will ride’, suggesting that the sun should not disturb the couple as it is per...
... 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.