This is essentially a poem that deals with love and is an expression of the intensity of love that the protagonist has for his partner. It is also a poem that intends to show the universal value and meaning of true love. The central literary device used in the poem is a form of extended metaphor, known as a "conceit", which functions to enhance the themes and meaning and express the poet's feelings.
             An argumentative tone is used throughout the poem. The poet uses this method to further enhance the point that he is trying to make. The poem begins with the lines: "Busy old fool, unruly sun." The protagonist berates the sun for waking him and his lover from their state of ecstasy. The poet in fact uses personification by addressing the sun as a person. He expresses his view that the sun is a" fool" for shining through the windows and wakening them. This foolishness is due to the fact that it does not comprehend the importance and the extent of their love. Through purposeful exaggeration and argument the poem continually emphasizes and venerates the protagonist's love relationship.
             The poet goes on to ask the question of the sun: "Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run?" This question implies that the protagonist in the poem regrets the fact that love should be subject to nature and to the realities of day and night; and this is turn expresses the intensity of his love. The poet continues to use this metaphorical comparison with the sun as a symbol of earthly time and existence and compares it to the view that love is beyond or transcends all seasons and earthly hindrances. It is something which "...no season knows..."
             Exaggeration is a literary device that is used to good effect in the poem. In the second stanza the narrator turns to a discussion of his lover's eyes; which he compares to the sun. The line "If her eyes have not blinded Thine" sugges...