The Sun Rising Community Quotes

The speaker wishes the sun would leave him alone and go bother other members of the community. He is condescending toward the outside world—while they are bound by time and seasons, he and his lover are not. His angry tone is also conveyed by the harsh consonant sounds.

This metaphor shows that the speaker believes his little private world transcends the public world. Who needs politics, baby, when I've got you? That reversed syntax structure is called a chiasmus, by the way, if you want to get technical.

In the speaker's view, not only is the rest of society irrelevant, it's also fake. This squares with someone who is infatuated, though. How could anyone think of doing paperwork when they've found true love?