SOLAR SYSTEM

Detailed explanation-1: -The sun, the speaker says, is half as happy as he and his lover are, for the fact that the world is contracted into their bed makes the sun’s job much easier-in its old age, it desires ease, and now all it has to do is shine on their bed and it shines on the whole world.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Sun Rising ends on a somewhat cryptic note, but suggests that the narrator’s universe consists of two people and one room only-that bed is the centre of the universe, and the walls of the room are its edge, and so when that room is warmed, the whole of the world is to them.

Detailed explanation-3: -’The Sun Rising’ is a love poem set in the speaker’s bedroom, where he and his lover lay in bed presumably after a night of passion. The sun is seen as an unwanted dawn intruder, invading the couple’s space, and is initially insulted before being challenged.

Detailed explanation-4: -The speaker of this poem is classic John Donne. That doesn’t mean that this is how we would expect John Donne to speak if we saw him walking down the street (that would just be awkward), but this voice is entirely consistent with the voice we hear in much of his work.