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The Sun Rising (also known as The Sunne Rising) is a thirty-line poem (a great example of an inverted aubade) [1] with three stanzas published in 1633 [2] by the English poet John Donne. The meter is irregular, ranging from two to six stresses per line in no fixed pattern.
John Donne (/ d ĘŚ n / DUN; 1571 or 1572 [a] – 31 March 1631) was an English poet, scholar, soldier and secretary born into a recusant family, who later became a cleric in the Church of England. [2]
The Sun Rising may refer to: The Sun Rising, a poem by John Donne published in 1633 "The Sun Rising" (song), a 1989 single by The Beloved; See also. Sunrise ...
The Holy Sonnets of John Donne; A Hymn to God the Father; I. If Faithful Souls; S. The Sun Rising (poem) V. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
John Donne, aged about 42. Donne was born in 1572 to a wealthy ironmonger and a warden of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers, and his wife Elizabeth. [2] After his father's death when he was four, Donne was trained as a gentleman scholar; his family used the money his father had made to hire tutors who taught him grammar, rhetoric, mathematics, history and foreign languages.
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Example: “The Sun Rising” by John Donne. [1] Deep image; Didactic; Dramatic monologue; Epithalamium (aka epithalamion): a nuptial poem in honour of the bride and bridegroom. Ecopoetry; Ekphrasis: a poem that vividly describes a scene or work of art. [1] Elliptical; Epigram; Folk. Folk ballad; Gnomic: a poems laced with proverbs, aphorisms ...
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