“The Sun Rising” by John Donne is an aubade about two lovers who are awakened by the sun when all they want to do is stay in bed all day. Throughout the poem the speaker, presumably Donne himself, speaks to the sun and tells him to go away. This poem is divided into three stanzas with an ABBACDCDEE rhyme scheme. Each of these verses represents what Donne is telling the sun to do, which is to go away, I am stronger than you and that he and his lover are the center of the world. Donne uses diction in all three stanzas to emphasize his three points and to emphasize the overall point of the poem, which is that love is not affected by time. John Donne uses diction throughout his poem “The Sun Rising” to point out that the sun is not welcome to wake him up and is loving. At the beginning of the poem Donne calls the sun a "foolish old man" and "unruly", which shows that he is not grateful for the sun shining through their window and waking them up. He then goes on to tell the sun to "reprimand" school-going children who are late and apprentices who oversleep and are "bitter" about it. The sun should indicate to the hunters that the king will want to go out and ride and the sun will also indicate to the “ants” that it is a good day to gather their crops. The sun should not wake up lovers, because love does not change with the rising of the sun or the changing of the seasons. Donne ends the verse by saying that love doesn't know what time it is. Donne classifies time as the “rags of time”. The second verse begins with Donne accusing the sun of thinking its rays are so “reverend” and “strong” and then says why anyone would think this is true. He goes on to say that he "could eclipse and overshadow them with a victory... middle of paper... note, because the sun is often seen as a happy symbol and for Women they are happier." of the sun. The next line explains why they are happier than the sun, "because the world is so contracted", the world, in their mind, is in their bedroom and they don't have to hurry to send someone away as when others have to do it in the world real. . Donne then states that the sun has other tasks to heat the world, but since the world is its room the sun only has to heat them and then that's it. The last two lines conclude his argument that he and his lover are the center of the world. He begs the sun to stay and warm them and everywhere, instead of leaving like he wanted the sun to do in the first stanza. The last line of the stanza and the poem, "this bed is your center, these walls, your sphere", confirms that Donne thinks he is the center not only of the world but of the universe.