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All Right, so here's the second part of my John Donne, Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood crossover. The poem I chose is the second one of the John Donne romantic poems that I encountered. It's called "The Sun Rising":

                   Busy old fool, unruly sun,

                   Why dost thou thus,

    Through windows, and through curtains call on us?

    Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run?

                   Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide

                   Late school boys and sour prentices,

             Go tell court huntsmen that the king will ride,

             Call country ants to harvest offices,

    Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime,

    Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.



                   Thy beams, so reverend and strong

                   Why shouldst thou think?

    I could eclipse and cloud them with a wink,

    But that I would not lose her sight so long;

                   If her eyes have not blinded thine,

                   Look, and tomorrow late, tell me,

             Whether both th' Indias of spice and mine

             Be where thou leftst them, or lie here with me.

    Ask for those kings whom thou saw'st yesterday,

    And thou shalt hear, All here in one bed lay.



                   She's all states, and all princes, I,

                   Nothing else is.

    Princes do but play us; compared to this,

    All honor's mimic, all wealth alchemy.

                   Thou, sun, art half as happy as we,

                   In that the world's contracted thus.

             Thine age asks ease, and since thy duties be

             To warm the world, that's done in warming us.

    Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere;

    This bed thy center is, these walls, thy sphere.

Bascially, in the poem, the lovers have had sex, and then the next morning, the male lover wakes up because he feels that the sun is disturbing him. In the first stanza, he scolds the sun for disturbing them. In the second stanza, he says that he--as a lover--is more powerful than the sun, and that she(his lover) is more beautiful than anything in the world. Then, he goes on to show how his relationship is more important than anything in the entire universe.

I think this poem is really beautiful. At first, I thought to match the poem to Lingfan, since it has mentions of Princes in it, but then I realised that Lingfan is better represented by a different poem. So, this poem needed a mature couple, and I thought of Royai. I thought that the ideas of Princes and States represent Roy's desire to become Furher, but also that the feelings in the poem were well represented by Roy's feelings for Riza.

I'm quite proud of how things turned out--particularly Riza's tattoo--although the effect of the Sun peeping in didn't come across too well.

Description
All Right, so here's the second part of my John Donne, Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood crossover. The poem I chose is the second one of the John Donne romantic poems that I encountered. It's called "The Sun Rising":

                   Busy old fool, unruly sun,

                   Why dost thou thus,

    Through windows, and through curtains call on us?

    Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run?

                   Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide

                   Late school boys and sour prentices,

             Go tell court huntsmen that the king will ride,

             Call country ants to harvest offices,

    Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime,

    Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.



                   Thy beams, so reverend and strong

                   Why shouldst thou think?

    I could eclipse and cloud them with a wink,

    But that I would not lose her sight so long;

                   If her eyes have not blinded thine,

                   Look, and tomorrow late, tell me,

             Whether both th' Indias of spice and mine

             Be where thou leftst them, or lie here with me.

    Ask for those kings whom thou saw'st yesterday,

    And thou shalt hear, All here in one bed lay.



                   She's all states, and all princes, I,

                   Nothing else is.

    Princes do but play us; compared to this,

    All honor's mimic, all wealth alchemy.

                   Thou, sun, art half as happy as we,

                   In that the world's contracted thus.

             Thine age asks ease, and since thy duties be

             To warm the world, that's done in warming us.

    Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere;

    This bed thy center is, these walls, thy sphere.

Bascially, in the poem, the lovers have had sex, and then the next morning, the male lover wakes up because he feels that the sun is disturbing him. In the first stanza, he scolds the sun for disturbing them. In the second stanza, he says that he--as a lover--is more powerful than the sun, and that she(his lover) is more beautiful than anything in the world. Then, he goes on to show how his relationship is more important than anything in the entire universe.

I think this poem is really beautiful. At first, I thought to match the poem to Lingfan, since it has mentions of Princes in it, but then I realised that Lingfan is better represented by a different poem. So, this poem needed a mature couple, and I thought of Royai. I thought that the ideas of Princes and States represent Roy's desire to become Furher, but also that the feelings in the poem were well represented by Roy's feelings for Riza.

I'm quite proud of how things turned out--particularly Riza's tattoo--although the effect of the Sun peeping in didn't come across too well.