... of the Sun's intrusion "through windows" and "through curtains." Windows and curtains are what separate the two lovers from the physical world. "Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime, Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time" "The Sun Rising" reveals the motive to engage in love within a confine place that is free from the time constraints of the physical world. "She's all states, and all princes I; Nothing else is" In "John Donne, Undone," Thomas Docherty comments on the first line of this quote: "Sexual relation fades into commercial relation here, and the female herself becomes mediated as a symbol of the market-place itself..." Donne follows the seventeenth-century social standard which believes that women are inferior to men, when he claims that his lover is territory while he is the prince of that territory. Charlee Milgate 13CD ...

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