In his poem “The Sun Rising,” John Donne uses the personification of the sun, anti-courtier rhetoric, and metaphysical conceit to express love's ability to transcend the earthly conditions and to place lovers at the center. of the universe. The poem opens with the speaker mocking the sun for interrupting his morning with his lover. He addresses the sun as a curious old man, saying: “Busy old fool, unruly sun, / Why do you do so… / Pedantic and impertinent wretch” (665, 1-5). The sun, which in most traditions variously symbolizes power, monarchy and divinity, is here reduced to a very earthly and humble state, unlike its usual place among the heavens. Through the speaker's personification, the sun is transformed from a noble celestial body into one that not only lacks authority, but is "unruly" and "impertinent." These two qualities imply his inferior status, but also his defiant, and therefore ignoble, face. The speaker continues by saying to the sun: "Go scold / Late schoolchildren and sour apprentices /… love, all the same, no season knows neither climate, / Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time" (665, 5-10). After relegating the sun to the rank of a humble fool, the speaker tells him that he has no jurisdiction over him and his lover. Although the sun rules all the world's inhabitants, telling them when to sleep, wake and work, lovers alone refuse to submit to its rule. Hours and days have no meaning for them and are called the "rags of time", which once again diminishes the status of the sun to that of poor and makes the lovers rich in comparison. Because of the power of their love, they need no governance other than their own. While the rest of the world responds to the will of the sun, the two lovers, without the need for ...... middle of paper ......, declare that he and his lover are the whole world. He informs the sun that he can fulfill his duty of warming the world by staying to warm it, as they encompass the world. The sun revolves around the lovers' bed. The state of love led the couple to surpass all the princes of the world and master its vast well, and establish them as the heart of the universe. Through their passionate love, the speaker of the poem and his lover transcend the material constraints and limitations of their low rank, as well as the feeling of being at the center of the universe. Donne's personification of the sun, his use of anti-courtier rhetoric that develops anti-authoritarian sentiment directed against the sun, and his metaphysical vanity that elevates lovers above nobility and wealth, all reveal the transcendent quality of love..