“The Sun Rising” by John Donne is a romp about two lovers awakened by the sun when all they want to do is stay in bed all day. The entire poem is about the speaker, presumably Donne himself, speaking to the sun and telling it to go away. This poem is divided into three stanzas with an ABBACDCDEE rhyme scheme. Each of these stanzas represents what Donne tells the sun to do, that is, go away, I am stronger than you, and that he and his lover are the center of the world. Donne uses diction throughout the three stanzas to make his three points and to give the overall point of the poem, which is that love is unaffected by time. John Donne uses diction throughout his poem “The Sun Rising” to emphasize that the sun is not affected by weather. welcome to her awakening and is her lover. At the beginning of the poem, Donne calls the sun a “crazy old man” and “unruly,” which shows that he is not grateful that the sun is shining through their window and waking them up. He then goes on to tell the sun to go "scold" the children who go to school who are late and the apprentices who overslept and are "bitter" about it. The sun should indicate to the hunters that the king will want to come out and ride and the sun will also indicate to the "ants" that it is a good day to harvest their crops. The sun should not wake lovers, because love does not change with the rising of the sun or the changing of the seasons. Donne ends the stanza by saying that love does not know what time it is. Donne classifies time among the “rags of time”. The second stanza begins with Donne accusing the sun of thinking its rays are so "reverend" and "strong", then says why would anyone think this is true. He goes on to say that he "could eclipse and darken them with a victory...... middle of paper ......ote, for the sun appears most often as a happy symbol and for Donne, they are happier. than the sun. The next line explains why they are happier than the sun, "inasmuch as the world is thus contracted", the world, in their minds, is in their room and they do not have to hurry anyone as when d Others have to do it in the real world. . Donne then states that the sun has other duties to warm the world, but since the world is his room, the sun only has to warm them and then it's done. The last two lines summarize his argument that he and his lover are the center of the world. He begs the sun to stay and warm them and everywhere else, instead of moving away like he wanted the sun to do in the first stanza. The last line of the stanza and poem, "this bed is your center, these walls, your sphere", confirms that Donne thinks he is the center not only of the world but of the universe..