The Sun Rising

The Sun Rising- John Donne

            This poem is very interesting to me because it brings up the down sides to the sun rising when most would look at the sun rising as a good thing.  The narrator of the poem explains how the sun rising is going to take him away from his love.  When the sun rises he will not be able to lay with his love anymore.  He explains in line 25, “Thou, sun, art half as happy as we,” this refers to him and his lady as being happier than the sun itself.  It is interesting how the narrator compares his love to his woman to the sun rising.  My favorite line in this poem is the last when he says “This bed thy center is, these walls thy sphere.” In this line he is explaining that him and his love are the center of the universe, which, is saying that to him all that matters in his life is his love and himself.  This poem is very intriguing to me by showing how much love means to John Donne, the author.