SOLAR SYSTEM

Detailed explanation-1: -In Stanza two, the speaker is saying how the sun believes its beams are strong but he could “eclipse” and “cloud them in a wink” (line 13). Although he can shield his eyes from the sun, he does not want to do that because it means he would be also shielding his eyes from his lover.

Detailed explanation-2: -In “The Sun Rising, ‘’ the speaker wants to bend the rules of the universe. Rather than allowing the sun’s “motions” across the sky to govern the way the speaker spends his time, the speaker challenges the sun’s authority and claims that love gives him (the speaker) the power to stay in bed all day with his lover.

Detailed explanation-3: -He says he’s better than the sun, stronger than the sun, even, because he can just shut his eyes and make that bright star disappear entirely. In fact, he’s such a big deal that he tells the sun to look around and discover that the whole world resides right there in Donne’s bed.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the case of “The Sun Rising, ‘’ the small space is not a single body but rather the lovers’ bed. The speaker claims that “to warm the world” is the same thing as “warming us, ‘’ transforming himself into a kind of king of the world and the center of the universe.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.