The poem is written from the love chamber of the two lovers. The sun's rays enter through the windows and mark the end of the night. The bed is the centre around which the sun revolves. Sun, as the source of vigour and vitality, is invited to shine upon the lovers. The paradigm of the voyeuristic thRead more
The poem is written from the love chamber of the two lovers. The sun’s rays enter through the windows and mark the end of the night. The bed is the centre around which the sun revolves. Sun, as the source of vigour and vitality, is invited to shine upon the lovers. The paradigm of the voyeuristic third person being shunned and later being invited is invisible in this poem.
This is essentially a love poem like the Donne’s The Good Morrow.
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John Donne has cleverly and extensively used tools of figures of speech in this poem, mainly by use of simile, metaphor, pun, personification, hyperbole etc. The title of the poem is itself a metaphor for "waking up to a new life" Similarly, use of Hyperbole, metaphor, simile, and pun is used in thRead more
John Donne has cleverly and extensively used tools of figures of speech in this poem, mainly by use of simile, metaphor, pun, personification, hyperbole etc.
The title of the poem is itself a metaphor for “waking up to a new life”
Similarly, use of Hyperbole, metaphor, simile, and pun is used in the opening lines,
“I Wonder by my troth, what thou, and I
Did, till we lov’d? were we not wean’d till then?
But suck’d on countrey pleasures, childishly?
Or snorted we in the seaven sleepers den?”
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