SOLAR SYSTEM

Detailed explanation-1: -The speaker describes himself as a “busy old fool, ‘’ while the sun is an “unruly” force that is bound by the conventions of time and space. The speaker also suggests that he has the power to eclipse the sun’s light with a single gesture, while the sun has no such power over him.

Detailed explanation-2: -The first half of the first line makes the sun sound like a cranky old man, but then Donne immediately switches the image. He calls the sun unruly, as if it were a child or a pet that misbehaved. This is some serious 17th-century smack talk.

Detailed explanation-3: -It is immediately obvious that personification is going to play an important role in this poem when the titular object-the sun-is referred to as an “unruly, ‘’ “busy old fool.” The sun is calling to the narrator of The Sun Rising “through windows, and through curtains”-which is what the sun does, after all.

Detailed explanation-4: -The form of this poem doesn’t have a specific name, but it is very formal. The poem is constructed of three ten-line stanzas and each stanza is constructed the same way. Lines 1, 5, and 6 of each stanza are iambic tetrameter, meaning they have eight syllables with four of them stressed.

Detailed explanation-5: -Shakespeare and Donne both wrote a lot, and among both of their best works are sonnets that are very playful and complicated. “The Sun Rising” is not one of Donne’s sonnets precisely, but it does have some elements of the sonnet.