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John Donne’s Songs and Sonets include love poetry with very different attitudes towards the relationship between men and women. Four such poems, “The Sun Rising”, “Song”, “The Flea”, and “The Undertaking”, show very contradictory views of what love is and should be. Each of these poems give a diverse even conflicting view of love because they represent the different kinds of love a person encounters throughout their life; starting with young infatuation love, moving to bitter love, changing to physical love, and ending with content love
“The Sun Rising” offers the first relationship level, that of infatuation. In this poem, we see the author chide the sun for rising and starting a new day. The speaker gives the impression of a young man with a first love. He wishes for the day not to start because he wants to stay in this little world, “This bed the center is, these walls thy sphere.” But he also wants to stay in this feeling and not have it grow into more complicated......

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