John Donne, Great love poem. (Celebrates rising at the crack of 9:30 ;))
"The Sun Rising" must be one of the most joyous love poems ever written. It interrogates the troubadour genre, the "Alba" or dawn song, in which the lovers lament their obligation to separate at daybreak. Donne's speaker greets the sunrise undismayed. Right away, he establishes a teasing, boastful tone. He's talking to the sun man-to-man, you might say, except he's a marvellously cocky youth and the sun is a fussy old dotard. The "rising" the poem advertises is not, in fact, primarily the sun's: it is the firing and blazing of male sexual energy. Go and bother ordinary working folk, the poet seems to say; we're not getting up. Love rules, OK?
That is a gorgeous photo! I love it!!
ReplyDeleteOh my, that is something else. Love the ripples and reflections on the water.
ReplyDeletePhoto is gorgeous!! - MBZ
ReplyDeleteJohn Donne, Great love poem. (Celebrates rising at the crack of 9:30 ;))
"The Sun Rising" must be one of the most joyous love poems ever written. It interrogates the troubadour genre, the "Alba" or dawn song, in which the lovers lament their obligation to separate at daybreak. Donne's speaker greets the sunrise undismayed. Right away, he establishes a teasing, boastful tone. He's talking to the sun man-to-man, you might say, except he's a marvellously cocky youth and the sun is a fussy old dotard. The "rising" the poem advertises is not, in fact, primarily the sun's: it is the firing and blazing of male sexual energy. Go and bother ordinary working folk, the poet seems to say; we're not getting up. Love rules, OK?
Absolutely beautiful Erin!
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