Sunne Rising
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Write an essay of 2000 words analysing the following poem. Your answer should include a detailed analysis of the language of the poem and the concerns and methods of its author.
Donne, 'The Sunne Rising'
Busie old foole, unruly Sunne,
Why dost thou thus,
Through windowes, and through curtaines call on us ?
Must to thy motions lovers seasons run ?
Sawcy pedantique wretch, goe chide
Late schoole boyes, and sowre prentices,
Goe tell Court-huntsmen, that the King will ride,
Call countrey ants to harvest offices;
Love, all alike, no season knowes, nor clyme,
Nor houres, dayes, moneths, which are the rags of time.
Thy beames, so reverend, and strong
Why shouldst thou thinke ?
I could eclipse and cloud them with a winke,
But that I would not lose her sight so long;
If her eyes have not blinded thine,
Looke, and to morrow late, tell mee,
Whether both the'Indias of spice and Myne
Be where thou leftst them, or lie here with mee.
Aske for those Kings whom thou saw'st yesterday,
And thou shalt heare, All here in one bed lay.
She'is all States, and all Princes, I,
Nothing else is.
Princes doe but play us; compar'd to this,
All honor's mimique; All wealth alchimie...