John Donne the master of metaphysical written by a poem “The Flea” The Flea poet uses to biological image of this poem in the order to idea with the theme of love. This poem is a plea from a man to a woman for her to sleep with him. Donne uses the flea as a vessel that has mixed their blood and thus a reason having sex with him is no longer sinful.
The poem is divided into three parts which are the processes of the whole poem. The flea that sucked their blood, the death of the flea, and the turning thought of the author. The speaker is using a flea as a means of convincing his lover to sleep with him. There is no setting provided, the speaker and his lover are alone. This whole theme to this poem is about sexual desire. The speaker points out a flea to a woman that he desire. She rejects him and he points out that the blood of each of them is already “mingling” inside of the flea.
The speaker points out the flea and tries to relate it to something very trivial, but the woman thinks of it as a big deal. He points out that their blood is now mixing together inside the flea. The speaker tries to relate sex to their blood mixing saying that it is not a sin nor is it shameful. He then complains that the flea gets to do more than they do.
The woman kills the flea, but the only thing that happens is she gets blood on her fingernail. The man claims that the flea is innocent and the only harm done is that it took a single drop of blood. The woman man’s argument. The man agrees that his argument has fallen apart. The speaker then says that his whole argument was a way of proving that having sex with him would not be as disastrous and shameful as she thinks.
The poem ends before the woman responds to the speaker, we are left wondering if she will succumb to him or deny him and remain chaste.
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