Topic > Compare the ways in which Donne presents the experience...

In both "The Sun Rising" and "The Good Morrow" Donne presents the experience of love, in a typical metaphysical style, to engage the reader through sharing his own experiences. These poems display distinctive characteristics of metaphysical poems involving colloquial diction, drawing creative images from unconventional sources, passionate analysis of relationships, and examination of feelings. Donne presents the experience of love through ideas, metaphysical spirit, linguistic techniques and images, in a confident tone using logical arguments. The impact of Donne's use of direct and idiomatic language shows the reader how he feels about a woman and ultimately about love. In "The Sun Rising" the tone and language that Donne uses when interacting with the sun at the beginning of the poem are humbling and powerful starting immediately with "Busy old fool, unruly Sun", which shows Donne directly addressing the sun and perhaps it burns him for disturbing the sleeping lovers. Donne shows what the experience of love means to him by expressing his dislike of the dawn of a new day, which represents the separation of the couple after spending the night together. In the first stanza Donne asks direct rhetorical questions that investigate the existence of the sun: "Shall lovers' seasons follow your movements?" This shows that Donne does not agree with the fact that the sun controls what lovers do. It is also important to note that Donne uses the capital when addressing the "Sun" as if it were personified and emphasizes its importance in the poem. He continues to talk about the sun's actions and is very scolding when he states "Go and tell the court hunters that the king will ride", suggesting that the sun should not disturb the couple as it is in the center of the card. .....not exclusively on himself and his lover. In this way he says that the sun will shine on the whole world. It is evident that in both poems the tone and language are dramatic, as this is typical of Donne's writing style. His use of imagery and symbolism effectively presents his experience of love. However it is the structure that builds the emotion throughout the poems as Donne begins in each poem to refer to a seductive love, and then ultimately realizes the importance of true love. 'The Good Morrow' clearly shows proof of this when at the beginning Donne states that he has 'childishly sucked the pleasures of the country' and in the end he realizes that a 'Love so similar that none can loosen, none can die'. weight of power on both the part of his lover and Donne, the reader can begin to see a much more balanced relationship than before, when he was unsure of love.