Metaphysical Poetry - the Flea and the Sunne Rising - binary oppositions

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English

 

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James S

 

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March 29, 2013

 

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In the "Sunne Rising" Donne uses a number of dramatic contrasts; a contrast of old and new things, beautiful and stunning imagery reflected on his lover, and the movement of the poem to help shape his meaning. In the very first line of the poem, using direct address, Donne states "Busie old foole, unruly Sunne," this first line begins one of the meanings presented in the poem; the struggle between old and new things...
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This struggle is heavily displayed in the first stanza, "Old..unruly..pedantique..chidde..late schoole boyes," the dramatic contrast between the new and old gives the reader a feeling of struggle and confusing during the first stanza, which was what Donne was feeling through the 17th century. These words help the reader to understand Donne's meaning; that new things have disrupted the old...
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