John Donne: A Poet Out of His Time"The world's first poet in some things," applauded Ben Jonson of his friend John Donne (Donne, John Donne : a selection of his poetry 11). Amid the stylized and often frivolous verse of the Elizabethan and knightly poets, John Donne's work emerges as striking, intellectual, and honest about human nature and emotion, ranking him as the first of the modern poets. Through an exploration of Donne's "The Sun Rising" and "The Flea," we will reveal Donne's innovative style and technique, and how this pushes him away from seventeenth-century poetic orthodoxy and toward the style of the modern age.0 “Busy old fool, rebellious sun,/Why do you do this?” Donne boldly denounces the sun itself, a celestial body worshiped throughout the ages, in his poem "The Sun Rising." Furthermore, Donne employs an interesting concept: he uses the everyday and routine phenomena of the rising sun as the basis for a love poem, love being extraordinary, new and often unrepeatable. Donne continues in a dramatic and arrogant manner...