The Sun Rising, John Donne

BUSY old fool, unruly Sun,
Why dost thou thus,
Through windows, and through curtains, call on us ?
Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run ?
Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide
Late school-boys and sour prentices,
Go tell court-huntsmen that the king will ride,
Call country ants to harvest offices ;
Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime,
Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Thy beams so reverend, and strong
Why shouldst thou think ?
I could eclipse and cloud them with a wink,
But that I would not lose her sight so long.
If her eyes have not blinded thine,
Look, and to-morrow late tell me,
Whether both th' Indias of spice and mine
Be where thou left'st them, or lie here with me.
Ask for those kings whom thou saw'st yesterday,
And thou shalt hear, "All here in one bed lay."

She's all states, and all princes I ;
Nothing else is ;
Princes do but play us ; compared to this,
All honour's mimic, all wealth alchemy.
Thou, Sun, art half as happy as we,
In that the world's contracted thus ;
Thine age asks ease, and since thy duties be
To warm the world, that's done in warming us.
Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere ;
This bed thy center is, these walls thy sphere.

The Sun Rising, a poem by John Donne, is an aubade poem which is a a song or poem about lovers separating at dawn. The speaker and his lover are in bed together when the sunlight comes through the windows. The speaker tells the sun to leave them alone. The Speaker says that their love together is complete, and that the sun is interrupting and being annoying. He then tells the sun that his lover is worth more than anything the sun can ever find outside their bedroom. In the end, he says the sun is old and so it should rest because its duty is to warm the world and since they are the world has been completed. The speaker continues and then cleverly adds how it has centered itself upon the room of his love and so they are the sun, the center of the universe. Some poetic devices used are apostrophes. The sun is being characterized as a “busy old fool” and “saucy pedantic wretch”. Now, since an aubade is about lovers separating at dawn, i think that the sign is a symbol of an intruder, and is what is separating them at dawn.