The Flea: Analysis
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In the poem The Flea by John Donne he is talking to his the woman he loves. He would like to make love to her and she will not respond to his needs.
The relationship between the flea and sexual intercourse in this poem is an unflattering comparison described with unique detail. In the first stanz ....
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.... is referred to as sex. It is the authors comment that they have intercourse within the flea but that is more than the two of them do together. Saying to her that this would not be adultery suggests that she has a strong faith and is ethically bound to abide by the principals of her religion. His argument is to put down the religion by saying even the flea is mixing our blood, so why shouldn't we? That suggests that the flea is one of God's creatures and so it should follow the principals o ....
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