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The Flea is written by John Donne. A Jacobean poet and preacher and a representative of the metaphysical poets of his time. I guess that's why it is not easy for some poetry readers to understand poems written by metaphysical poets. Even their writing formats seem to differ from those of the ordinary poets like Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop et Cetera. Though it makes the poem "cool" because of the shocking imagination- metaphysical- beyond physicality.
John Donne is a master of paradox. His works, notable for their realistic and sensual style, include sonnets, love poetry, religious poems. His poetry is noted for its vibrancy of language and immediacy of metaphor, which can be compared with that of his contemporaries.
The outward nature of Donne's poem- The Flea appears to be a love poem. It is a dedication from a male suitor to his lady of honor, who refuses to yield to his lustful desires. A closer and painstaking looking at the poem reveals that this suitor is actually arguing a point to his lady: that the loss of innocence does not constitute a loss of honor as mentioned in the last stanza, "Tis true; then learn how false, fears be; just so much honor, when thou yield'st to me, will waste, as this flea's death took life from thee."
The poet begins his argument by the fact that the act of intercourse as a shameful sin. He also belittles it, claiming that if the same effects can be realized within the body of a tiny flea, then the act itself cannot hold tremendous importance. In this poem the speaker did not show many or any closeness of relationship with the lady. I think they are going out, but not actually dating in real sense.
"Mark but this flea..." the speaker was saying that she should know that Mark but this flea and mark in this- notice this flea. By analyzing this poem, we got to realized that the content of the poem consist of three living things. Who are those? Those are the speaker or the man, the women or...
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