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    The poem "The Sunne Rising" by John Donne addresses the sun, chiding it for disturbing the poet and his beloved with its morning light through the windows and curtains. In three stanzas, the poet asserts his and his lover's supremacy over the sun and all earthly realms, saying their love transcends time, place, and social hierarchies. He diminishes the sun's power and importance compared to the warmth and light of his beloved's eyes. In the end, the poet declares their bed as the sun's new center and the walls as its sphere, redefining the sun's role and place in service of their love.

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    The poem "The Sunne Rising" by John Donne addresses the sun, chiding it for disturbing the poet and his beloved with its morning light through the windows and curtains. In three stanzas, the poet asserts his and his lover's supremacy over the sun and all earthly realms, saying their love transcends time, place, and social hierarchies. He diminishes the sun's power and importance compared to the warmth and light of his beloved's eyes. In the end, the poet declares their bed as the sun's new center and the walls as its sphere, redefining the sun's role and place in service of their love.

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    The poem "The Sunne Rising" by John Donne addresses the sun, chiding it for disturbing the poet and his beloved with its morning light through the windows and curtains. In three stanzas, the poet asserts his and his lover's supremacy over the sun and all earthly realms, saying their love transcends time, place, and social hierarchies. He diminishes the sun's power and importance compared to the warmth and light of his beloved's eyes. In the end, the poet declares their bed as the sun's new center and the walls as its sphere, redefining the sun's role and place in service of their love.

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    The Sunne Rising

    John Donne

    Busie old foole, unruly Sunne,


    Why dost thou thus,
    Through windowes, and through curtains call on us?
    Must to thy motions lovers season run?
    Sawcy pedantique wretch, goe chide
    Late schoole boyes, and sowre prentices,
    Goe tell Court-huntsmen, that the King will ride,
    Call countrey ants to harvest offices;
    Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clyme,
    Nor houres, dayes, months, which are the rags of time.

    Thy beames, so reverend, and strong


    Why shouldst thou thinke?
    I could eclipse and cloud them with a winke,
    But that I would not lose her sight so long:
    If her eyes have not blinded thine,
    Looke, and to morro late, tell mee,
    Whether both the’ India’s of spice and Myne
    Be where thou leftest them, or lie here with mee.
    Aske for those Kings whom thou saw’st yesterday,’
    And thou shalt heare, All here in one bed lay.

    She’is all States, and all Princes, I,


    Nothing else is.
    Princes doe but play us; compar’d to this,
    All honor’s mimique; All wealth alchime.
    Thou sunne art halfe as happy as wee,
    In that the world’s contracted thus;
    Thine age askes ease, and since thy duties bee
    To warme the world, that’s done in warming us.
    Shine here to us, and thou art every where;
    This bed thy center is, these walls, thy spheare.

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    Attempting a critical appreciation
    THE POINTS GIVEN BELOW ARE FOR CONVENIENCE. DON’T WRITE THE
    CRITICAL APPRECIATION IN POINTS. PUT IT IN SEPARATE PARAGRAPHS

    1. Introduction to the poet (if you know the poet)


    2. General meaning of the poem
    3. Detailed meaning or paraphrase
    4. Intention of the poet in writing the poem
    5. Structural features:
    a) Contrast (if any)
    b) Illustrations (if any)
    c) Repetition (if any)
    6. Sense devices
    a) Simile
    b) Metaphor
    c) Personification
    d) Conceit
    7. Tone
    a) Subjective
    b) Objective
    8. Mood (Elated, dejected, enthusiastic)
    9. Sound Devices:
    a) alliteration
    b) onomatopoeia
    c) rhyme
    d) rhythm
    e) assonance and consonance
    f) blank verse
    g) pun
    h) hyperbole
    10. Vocabulary
    a) archaic words
    b) British / American
    c) Monosyllabic / bi-syllabic / poly-syllabic (multi-syllabic) words
    11. Orthography
    12. Sentence structure
    a) Simple, Complex or Compound sentences
    b) Imperative
    c) Exclamatory
    d) Interrogative
    e) Rhetorical question
    13. Comment on the title of the poem
    14. Arrangement and organization of the lines and poem (Beginning, middle and end)
    15. Type of poem
    a) descriptive

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    b) reflective
    c) narrative
    d) lyric
    e) sonnet
    f) ode
    g) elegy
    h) dramatic monologue
    16. Grammatical pecularities
    a) parallelism
    b) syndetic or asyndetic coordination
    c) parallelism
    d) deviation (graphological, sentence structure, element arrangement)
    e) ellipsis
    f) pro-forms
    g) combinatory and segregatory coordination (eg Amitabh and Jaya make a
    perfect couple – combinatory Amitabh and Jaya came to the party –
    segregatory)
    h) predicative or attributive adjectives
    i) gradable or non-gradable adjectives
    17. Critical comments by other writers (if you have an access to some)
    18. Personal comments and conclusion

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    The Sunne Rising by John Donne

    Critical comments without paraphrase


    John Donne, one of the major exponents of metaphysical school of poetry, carved a special
    place for himself in the poetic circles in not only the Elizabethan and Jacobean age but also
    all ages to come. Donne as a poet rose as a rebel against the courtly and pastoral tradition
    of Elizabethan poetry of Christopher Marlowe, Sir Walter Raleigh, Edmond Spenser and
    William Shakespeare. His love poetry is bold and unconventional and at the same time
    intellectual. His poems are infused with a colloquial tinge.
    In conformity with his typical style, the poem, The Sunne Rising is a perfect example
    highlighting his major characteristics. In this poem, the poet through his intellectual power
    minimises and belittles the importance of the all powerful, omnipotent sun, None other
    than Donne could have done so. In this poem he has tried to establish his beloved’s and his
    own supremacy over the sun and has succeeded in doing so considerably.
    The images used by the poet are an admixture of urban and country life. He has painted the
    mundane morning activities of ‘the schoole boyes,’ ‘the countrey ants’ and also ‘the king’
    quite effectively.
    Comparing his beloved to ‘all states’ and himself to the ruler of these states, he expresses
    satisfaction at being in the company of his beloved. Apart from catching our attention in
    these lines, at the end too, Donne takes us by surprise when he says that if the glow of his
    beloved’s eyes has not blinded him (the sun), then he should come back the next day and
    report the happenings around the world. The treatment that he gives to the sun is akin to
    that given to a child. The poet has not resorted to any repetitive pattern. This suggests that
    he has deliberately avoided the musical effect so that it may be in harmony with his
    aggressive mood.
    The poet’s intention in the poem is to establish his supremacy over the sun. Beyond this he
    also wants to prove that the power of love cannot be weakened by any external power.
    Donne makes use of metaphors where he equates his beloved to ‘all atates’ and himself to
    ‘all princes’.
    This poem is a perfect example of personification. The poet is addresses the inanimate sun
    as if he is chiding a child for disturbing him:
    ‘Busie old foole, unruly Sunne,
    Why dost thou thus,
    Through windowes, and through curtains call on us?
    Must to thy motions lovers season run?’
    The use of imperative structures all through the poem shows his authoritative tone and his
    position of dominance:
    ‘Goe tell Court-huntsmen, that the King will ride,
    Call countrey ants to harvest offices;’
    Apart from this, the repeated use of first and second person pronouns like thou, I, me etc
    suggests a tone of subjectivity. The poem is an expression of his personal feelings and
    reactions at the peeping rays of the sun disturbing him in his bedroom while he is making
    love with his beloved. The theme that he has chosen is quite personal and no other poet
    before him was so open about his acceptance of love.
    We observe a significant change of mood in the poet’s attitude from the first to the last
    stanza. The opening lines of the first stanza where he is abusive and calls the sun ‘busie,

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    olde, foole, unruly’ sun reflect a mood of anger and irritation. In the second stanza, he
    belittles the power of the mighty sun and tries to ask the sun to move around the world
    and see whether all the places were where he left them. The mood in the last stanza
    lightens a bit and he is not the angry Donne of the first stanza.
    The rhyme scheme in he first stanza is ab ba, cd cd, cc. Each stanza is of ten lines with
    varying rhyme pattern.
    There is also variation in terms of orthography. The words ‘sunne’, ‘busie’, ‘fool’,
    ‘windowes’, ‘curtaines’, ‘goe’, ‘schoole’, ‘boyes’, ‘sowre’, ‘countrey’, ‘knowes’,
    ‘clyme’, ‘days’ etc are today spelled as sun, busie, windows, curtains, go, school, boys,
    sore, country, knows, clime, days respectively.
    The opening lines are unconventional and startling because of the abusive and bold
    manner and also because of regular padding up of adjectives used as pre-modifiers before
    the noun ‘sunne’ as ‘Busie, olde, foole, unruly Sunne’.
    The poem has the use of monosyllabic and bi-syllabic words because of which the
    vocabulary is simple. Beyond this we also have archaic words like ‘dost’ for does, ‘thou’
    for you, ‘thy’ for your and so on scattered all through the poem.
    The poem starts with two interrogatives and is followed by a series of imperatives and
    then a complex sentence structure without in the least affecting the understanding and
    simplicity.
    The title of the poem is quite apt and suggestive because the poet focuses on the time of
    morning and the images that he draws are all related to the early morning activities and
    the sun in particular. The reversal of treatment to the sun in the last stanza can also be
    credited to the poet because he handles the same quite effectively.
    Pierre Legouis rightly lauds The Sunne Rising for its rhetorical quality and says ‘. . . here
    the lover addresses the sun, and his railings sound more rhetorical than dramatic.’
    The poem is a perfect example of a proper beginning, middle and an end. The mood of
    irritation and anger in the introductory stanza becomes less intense in the second stanza
    and almost subsides in the last stanza which is very much in conformity with human
    nature. Human nature is such. The bubble of anger bursts and vanishes into normal
    human behaviour almost in the same fashion.
    The poem can be termed as an impulsive reaction of a lover who is disturbed by the rays
    of the sun.

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    MA Previous (English) Test Paper 1

    1. Identify and explain the fallacy involved in any two of the following arguments:
    a) You can’t park here. I don’t care what the sign says. If you don’t drive on
    I’ll give you a ticket.
    b) Mr Scrooge, my husband certainly deserves a raise in pay. I can hardly
    manage to feed the children on what you have been paying him. And our
    youngest child, Tim, needs an operation if he is ever to walk whithout
    crutches.
    c)
    2. Identify the concept expressed in each of the following utterances:
    a) You might have a look at this book.
    b) If I were you, I’d sell this car.
    c) May I have the pleasure of dancing with you.
    d) This way, please.
    e) Can you possibly give me a lift?

    3. Label each part as S, V, O, C or A:


    a) Last week I saw him at the theatre.
    b) The old woman offered him some cake.
    c) This picture costs a fortune.
    d) Her explanation sounds crazy.
    e) It has been happening since time immemorial.

    4. Transcribe the following words:


    Hand, refer, ability, go, no, sing, talk, run, call, this

    5. Construct sentences of your own to express the following notions/concepts:


    a) Request b) contrast c) determination d) past habit e) wish

    6. Relate the following pairs of sentences through either coordination or


    subordination
    a) My parents have been trying to persuade me for marriage. They have not
    succeeded as yet.
    b) I hate men. They are all male chauvinists.
    c) Dogs can apprehend disasters. It is a fact.
    d) Youth is the time. Seeds of character are sown then.
    e) I bought you a book. Where have you kept it?
    f) Please help me. You can.
    g) Life is not a bed of roses for him. He keeps smiling always.

    7. Attempt a critical appreciation of the poem appended along with this paper.

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