In his poem, "The Sun Rising," Donne immerses the reader into his transmuted reality with an apostrophe to the "busy old fool, unruly sun" that "through curtains" calls upon him, seizing him from the bliss which "no season knows." This bliss, a passionate love, stimulates him to reinvent reality within the confines of his own mind, a wishful thinking from which he does not readily depart, much like a sleepy child clings to the consequences …
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…refutes them. Since the sun cannot be stopped, the arrogant lover pretends to grant the sun leave to remain. He cleverly turns the sun's refusal to leave into a show of his generosity. If the sun is determined to warm the whole world, then the speaker would make his job easier for him by permitting him to stay: "Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere; This bed thy centre is, these walls, thy sphere."