The Flea By John Donne

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     In the poem “The Flea” by John Donne, the speaker uses clever sexual innuendo and metaphors in an attempt to manipulate a certain girl into losing her virginity to him. The poem begins with the speaker explaining that a flea has bit both him and her, and now both of

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Following a unique poetic language of the Renaissance, John Donne's ‘The Flea' is a poem illustrating the metaphor of a flea to represent the sexual act and relations between a man and woman. Portrayed through language, imagery, and structure John Donne's poem is one of conceit and seduction, as the speaker (assumed to be a man) follows a consistent pattern of persuasion to have premarital sex with a woman.

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This simply means that his mistress doesn’t like to get into nothing with her master. Where as in ‘The flea’, Donne only has one goal, which in this case is sex. He uses the flea because the flea has made them ‘almost married’ because of the exchange of blood. This is shown by ‘the flea sucked me and sucked you – blood mingled.’ It is evident that by using the flea and saying how the flea has married them, now gives Donne the power to follow out his intention, and become in control again of his mistress.

7. The poem begins with the description of a flea, which bit both the narrator and the woman to whom he speaks. Because of this flea, according to the subsequent lines, the two bloods of these individuals are mixed. Despite the bite, however, the author assure that whom he courts that her innocence would not be lost (nor loss of maidenhead), and that if they were to engage in any sort of intimacy, their acts would be more innocent than the flea's bit. In the subsequent stanza, the author speaks of marriage and an eventual union (marriage bed, marriage temple), though again, in the context of encouraging intimacy rather than courting for marriage. He also tells the woman that if she will not give into his requests she

John Donne was a contemporary of Shakespeare. His writing career occurred during the Renaissance. Poems about seduction were common during this era. The Flea by John Donne was a poem about a man urging his love interest into a sexual union with him by way of reason. In this time, premarital sex was considered a great sin and could get someone in a lot of trouble. The flea in this poem was used as a symbol of love and romance. A flea was one of the things that would least likely be used to describe a plot, between a man and a woman, about premarital sex. He appealed to her sense of reason rather than seducing her because she was fearful about giving herself to him. The narrator never talked directly about sex, instead he used imagery and

has sucked his blood and hers and he is now using this flea as an

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“The Flea”, written in 1633, is a poem of seduction lyrics using metaphors of a man courting a woman on the different aspects of their love. It consists of 3 stanzas with a rhyme scheme of 9 lines each ending in a couplet. The man first starts by addressing their unity within the flea. “It sucked me first, and now sucks thee, And in this flea our two bloods mingled be (Donne 517)”. This is symbolic to the holy trinity, which can have a variety of meaning to different believers of faith in God. But in this stanza, the symbolism of the binding of their bloods within the flea - has just consummated their marriage and she has lost her virginity. The fact they are not married and she is a virgin is irreverent in his pursuit to have sex. This simple-minded way of thinking may have contributed to the sanity of marriage today. In his mind, this may seem like a good