John Donne: A poet out of his time"The first poet in the world in certain areas", 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 Cavalier poets, John Donne's work emerges as surprising, intellectual, and honest to 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 it pushes him away from 17th-century poetic orthodoxy and the style of the modern era .0 "Busy old fool, unruly sun, / Why do you do this? Donne boldly denounces the sun itself, a celestial body revered throughout the ages, in his poem "The Sun Rising." Additionally, Donne uses a interesting idea: it uses the everyday and routine phenomenon of the rising sun as the basis of a love poem, love being extraordinary, new and often unique Donne continues in a dramatic and arrogant way....