Jonne Donne

John Donne’s poetry

John Donne’s finest achievements can be found in his love poetry. The Sunne Rising, A valediction Forbidding Mourning and The Relique are three examples of this.

Whether speaking directly or indirectly to his subject, in each of the poems, Donne describes his love for his lady. He does this using personification, metaphors, rhetorical divices and many other techniques to strengthen the argument he is presenting.

The Sunne Rising is set in bed with Donne’s lover. The poem is directed at the sun but is talking, for the majority of the poem, above how great the couple’s love is for each other. Donne begins the poem by scolding the sun for interrupting them; “Busie old foole, unruly Sunne, Why dost thou thus, Through windo...