The Sun Rising (seen poetry) Flashcards
Devices, themes, tone, mood, intention, style
What is the tone?
Give proof for your answer
Haughty
“saucy pedantic wretch” “I could eclipse …cloud them with a wink” “
“nothing else is”
What is the mood?
Give evidence for your answer
Tense/ of conflict
“Go”/ “Call”/ “Shine” “old fool” “unruly sun” “saucy pedantic wretch’
“thine age asks ease”
What is tone in “Thine age asks ease…warming us”
A tone of pity/condescension
What extended device is used?
It is metaphysical poetry (an extended metaphor is used). Mostly, there is personification of the sun.
What does the structure/form of the poem represent?
1) Each stanza represents a more intense stage of the argument
2) Rhymes are not perfect, reflecting the natural rythms of speech
What is the effect of the imperative and imperial sentences?
Asserting control over the sun with the power of his love. Love is not dictated to – love dictates.
What is the style of the poem?
Conversational/ Confrontional/ speech
Comment on the effect of the use of “rags of time”
Scientific concepts which were prized at the time, are diminished to small torn pieces.
Prove that the poet personalises the sun
“Why dost thou thus” implies the sun has control over choices.
“go”/”call” imply that the sun can be ordered around
“tomorrow tell me” implies communication
(a few others)
What is the poet’s message about love?
Provide evidence for your answer
Love > Sun
(can mention any as long as substantiated/ explained)
- “ i could .. cloud them with a wink” (the sun is at his mercy)
- “or lie here with me” We are the indias (everything rich/valuable)
- nothing else is
Describe the poet’s attitude.
Comment on the use of diction about the sun in Stanza 1.
“old fool, unruly sun”
“saucy pedantic wretch”
Insulting the sun/ convey displeasure at being awoken
What is the effect of the apostrophe in Stanza 1?
figure of speech in which an inanimate object is adressed by the speaker.
-> capable of communicating, obeying, decision-making, an object of anger.
Describe the tone in Stanza 1.
Angry/aggrieved/irritated. in contrast with admiring tone that we genuinely use when speaking about the sun.
“go chide late school boys” (get to work)
+ insults
Is the speaker complimenting the sun in Stanza 2?
“reverend” and “strong”: he further goes on to say that he could black out the sun;’s beams and the only reason not to is becayse he has to look at his lover. The words are not genuine,
Discuss the line: “if her eyes have not blinded thine”
lover’ eyes so glorious that they would blind the sun. ironic, because sun does that. hyperbolic expression symbolising irrelevance of sun in comparison to love.
What is the tone in Stanza 3?
The tone changes to a more gentle one; not chiding but telling it that it can warm the bed instead of the whole world. thus, the poem ends on a welcoming note - the sun is not chased away now, it is welcomes into the bubble.
discuss another hyperbole (apart from the lover’s eyes) in stanza 2.
all the spices in the world are in the lover’s bed. thus, hyperboles sugegesting that that bed is the whole world and contains everything.
explain the effect of ‘nothing else is”
short: definitive, simple
assertive. continues off the idea of the bed and her being all countries and him all princes.
What is the theme of the peom, and the message of the poet?
-> power of love
final benevolence of the speaker is his acknowledgement that he cannot control the sun. trying to impress his lover.
-> Message: as long as they are together, they have everything they need. they do not wish to be disturbed by outside forces.
comment on the structure of the poem.
1,4 2.3 5,7 6,8 9,10 rhyme. regular structure.
in oppositio with metaphysical ideas that are unusual; how the poets played with structure and meaning,
