Give an analysis of "The Sunne Rising".

This poem is really the poet addressing his remarks to the
sun!  Donne, ever the fanciful and imaginative poet, takes many impossibilities and uses
them in this lyric poem to explain how much he adores his lover.  The "busy old foole"
(line 1), Donne calls the sun, is peeking through the bedroom window as Donne lays with
his beloved.  He calls the sun "unruly", which is, of course, the exact opposite of what
the sun is.  The sun rises and sets regularly, never wavering, in a fixed pattern all
the year through.  Donne knew that immutable laws covered the motions of heavenly
objects, no more so than the sun, so calling such a ruling body "unruly" is strange
indeed!  He is saying that he wishes the sun was not so regular in his
habits.

The sentiment here is that he doesn't want his
night with his lover to end.  lThis was a standard poetic convention in Elizabethan
poetry (compare Romeo and Juliet, Act III scene v), but Donne, being Donne, turns it on
his head.   Not only does he wish fervently that the morning not come -- he says that
the sun is out of order and should not be coming at its appointed time!  This kind of
poetic arrogance, shown as the lovers' preeminence in importance even over heavenly
bodes, is characteristic of Donne. 

 He tells the sun to go
bother other people (as if the sun could shine on some people and not on others! --
again, a diminution of the sun's importance and universality) such as late schoolboys
and apprentices and huntsmen rather than the lovers.  At the end of the first stanza
Donne avers (rather than wishes) that the sun didn't govern the seasons of love (ln
9-10).  There is nothing that Donne thinks is more important than love, and all the laws
of the universe should be subject to it.

Of course, some of
this is meant to be fun.  Simply the image of calling the sun a "busy old foole" is
meant to bring a smile to the reader's face.  But as the poem continues the poet becomes
more serious.  He tells the sun that his mistress's eyes are more brilliant than his
light and he appears to mean it.  He tells the sun that all the sweet and wonderful
things that he shines on all over the world ("th'India's o spice and Myne" - line 17)
are not only pale in comparison to his mistress, but are, in fact, contained in her. 
She is all the great things on earth.

But Donne doesn't
stop there -- "She'is all States, and all Princes I" (line 21) begins the last stanza. 
"Nothing else is" he states baldly, in a unmetrical line 22.  There is nothing on earth
that matters other than the lovers and their love -- and in fact all of Creation is
contained in them.  This poem shows Donne using some of his most extreme metaphors.  One
wonders if he is always entirely sincere in them, but lines like "Thou sunne art halfe
as happy'as we" make the reader think that perhaps Donne is using these wild images and
avowals to try to express the enormity of his emotions.  It is an unusual love-poem, to
say the least