The sunne rising by John Donne and Shall i compare thee by William Shakespeare

The poem is progressive and contains a logical structure.It evolves

with the thoughts , sensations and desires of the narrator .Firstly ,he is annoyed and insults the sun by saying « busy old foole » .The sun is conscious and has the watchful personality of an old busybody.Secondly , he shows his superiority to the sun ,thanks to love. He describes his feelings when he says : « no season knows nor clime ,nor hours , days , months which are the rags of time » and thirdly , he explains that he and his mistress are the centre of the universe and that the world is contained in their bedrooms : «  This bed thy center is ,these walls , thy spheare ». At the end of the poem , the poet aks the sun to  « shine here to {them} » , as a conclusion to the realities (according to the poet) that he has explained .

Finally , the poem expresses a personnal experience , decsribed by the poet .For exemple , he uses « I » to talk . The poem is about him and his feelings. The inspiration of this poem is to pretend that each of these subjective states of feeling is an objective truth .His and his mistress’s  existence  is seen as a microcosm .John Donne ,altough he writes about his personnal feelings , presents them as reality .

On the other hand ,in the poem « my mistress eyes are nothing like the sun », is about a poet discribing his mistress whether than his personnal feelings.When the sunne rising  is not a specific form of poem , my mistress’s eyes are nothing like the sun is a shakesperean poem that follows a definite rhyme pattern and is a regular poem :  a, b, a, b, c, d, c, d, e, f, e, f, g, g is the rhyme scheme of the poem .Shakespear does not compare his mistress to objects , wealth but to nature , for exemple , when he says : «  but no sush roses see I in her cheeks » .Through comparaisons , metaphors and images , the poem builds a description of what her mistress is not .The use of  the word « sun » is for exemple , used very differently in the two poems . The sunne rising descibes the sun as a negative element and uses it to emphasyse on his love for his mistress.My mistress eyes are nothing like the sun’s presents it as a perfect element of nature ,that human nature cannot reach . The sunne rising , through images ,shows the reader that he and his mistress are the centre of the universe while the other poem tells us that his mistress is just like everyone else and that she is not perfect.

The progression of the poem is also very important . The shakesperean poem ends on a positive thought. The poet has explained that his mistress is vulnereble compared to nature but also says that he is truly in love with her and doesn’t need false comparaisons to describe her when he claims : « so long live this ,and this gives life to thee ».Both poems end on positive thoughts , expressing the love of the poets for their mistress’s , in different ways .

        My mistres’s eyes are nothing like the sun , the poet mocks the typical poems like the sunne rising , where the poets compare their mistres’s and feelings to unrealistic elements .This poem , like the john donne’s poem wants to be , in a way , a representation of reality as well . By comparing his mistress to nature , he shows the intensity of his love for his mistress,but in a different way then in the sunne rising : he shows his mistress that he loves his mistress the way he is , when John donne compares his feelings to unrealistic elements.

The sunne rising and my mistress eyes are nothing like the sun both express intense love feelings and themes through images but using completly different methods .