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Title: John Donne and "The Sun Rising"
Description: Short description of the seventeenth century poetry, the life of John Donne and his poem "The Sun Rising".
Description: Short description of the seventeenth century poetry, the life of John Donne and his poem "The Sun Rising".
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Seventeenth – Century poetry
- METAPHYSICAL POETS Poetry in the 17th was not characterized by homogeneity of expression
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The term “metaphysical” means “concerned with the fundamental problems of the nature of
the universe, and man’s function or place in life”
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The metaphysical poets reflected the intellectual and spiritual crisis of their age, the difficult
transition from the Renaissance to the Modern Age
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- THE STYLE
The clearest distinguishing feature of metaphysical poetry is the “conceit”, an unusual and
intellectual kind of metaphor, where the poet exploits all fields of knowledge, for example:
history, geography, astronomy, alchemy, etc
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John Donne
- HIS LIFE John Donne was born in London in 1572
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In these years he wrote Songs and Sonnets
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Thomas Egerton, one of the highest officials in Elizabeth’s government
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This way, Donne was dismissed from his job
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Robert Drury, in France and other countries
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After his wife’s death in 1617, he continued
to write poetry, but not anymore about love
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The sun rising
- METAPHYSICAL POETS -
The Sun Rising is a thirty-line poem with three stanzas, published in 1633
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The poem begins with the speaker addressing the sun as an "unruly," "busy old fool"
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He challenges the sun's authority, asking why lovers' seasons must run to its
motions
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He asserts
that love knows no season, climate, hours, days, or months, which he refers to as the "rags
of time"
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He asks the sun to
look and tell him tomorrow whether both the Indias of spice and mine are where the sun left
them or lie here with him
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He suggests that compared to their love, all honor is mimicry and all
wealth is alchemy
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He concludes by telling the sun to
shine here to them, and it will be everywhere
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Overall, the poem is playful in tone, full of hyperbole (exaggeration) and wit, but with the
serious purpose of extolling the vastness, timelessness, and beauty of love between a
couple
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Title: John Donne and "The Sun Rising"
Description: Short description of the seventeenth century poetry, the life of John Donne and his poem "The Sun Rising".
Description: Short description of the seventeenth century poetry, the life of John Donne and his poem "The Sun Rising".