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The Sunne Rising
Title: The Sunne Rising
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1893 | Pages: 8.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Sunne Rising
Upon first reading of John Donne’s ‘The Sunne Rising’ (Leonard 1998:463), it is obvious the poem is a love poem and it appears that the concerns of the poet are to show the speaker’s love for his mistress. Showing this them of love was obviously one of the poets concerns but the poem could also be seen as a statement of something greater. At the time Donne wrote this poem it was unconventional. The …showed first 75 words of 1893 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1893 total…is the very essence of ‘being’” (Martin 1990:34).
Donne was obviously concerned with writing a poem that would express how powerful and irrational love can be. He explores the theory that love is more powerful than one of nature’s greatest treasures, the sun. He has the reader believing that to be in love surpasses anything in the World. To be in love is to be the World. Nothing else matters when you are in love.
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