The Sun Rising (poem)

[3] Donne's poems were known to be metaphysical with jagged rhythms, dramatic monologues, playful intelligence, and startling images.

Donne is tapping into human emotion in personifying the sun, and he is exhibiting how beings behave when they are in love with one another.

In Stanza two, the speaker is saying how the sun believes its beams are strong but he could "eclipse" and "cloud them in a wink" (line 13).

Perhaps it is even reflected in that little unexpected epithet, "unruly" – suggesting the sun itself had challenged the Roman [Catholic Church’s] inquisition,"[5] Donne could have also been challenging the inquisition trial and condemnation of Galileo Galilei as a suspected heretic, and the incompatibility of science and religion.

Dr. Eric Otto argues that “he is still unsuccessful at convincing critical readers that internal love can symbolically replace the physical world if logic is subordinated to language.” In addition, it may be considered to be unsuccessful in convincing the reader of the power of love.

Otto claims that “upon condensing the world around his lover and himself, he calls back those objects that he initially excluded.