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Flea The Conceit

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A conticedent is an extended metaphor as an organizing device. In John Donne's poem the flea the conceit is that the narrator is closer to the flea than he is to his lover. Foster refers to a primary meaning and example behind this in this story that it is “telling”. There is also a secondary meaning and example of this in the story The Flea that is troughs all the metaphorical meanings and the implications in the story. In the poem the narrator of the story is easily thought to be a female thought to be sleeping with a man. When she is lying with the man the man notices a flea, which has bitten both the man and the woman. The man realizes that because the flea had bitten them both that the man and the woman had been sexed together by the

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