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“The Flea” is a poem by the English poet John Donne, most likely written in the 1590s. In “The Flea,” the speaker tries to seduce his mistress with a surprising (and potentially gross) extended metaphor : both he and she have been bitten by the same flea, meaning their separate blood now mingles inside the flea’s body.
The Flea" is an erotic metaphysical poem (first published posthumously in 1633) by John Donne (1572–1631). The exact date of its composition is unknown, but it is probable that Donne wrote this poem in the 1590s when he was a young law student at Lincoln's Inn , before he became a respected religious figure as Dean of St Paul's ...
The Flea. By John Donne. Mark but this flea, and mark in this, How little that which thou deniest me is; It sucked me first, and now sucks thee, And in this flea our two bloods mingled be; Thou know’st that this cannot be said. A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead,
The poem, ‘The Flea’ by John Donne is one of the best lyrics of Donne’s poems. Flea was a very popular subject for ribald and amatory poetry during the Renaissance. In this respect, the Renaissance poets imitated Ovid who has a poem on the subject. Such poets envied the flea for it had a free excess to the body of the beloved, but such ...
“The Flea” is an erotic poem in which the speaker, following the tradition of carpe diem poetry, attempts to convince his mistress to have sex with him. He does so by developing a shocking conceit based on a flea that has just bitten both him and his mistress.
“The Flea” Previous Next. This is an abridged summary and analysis of "The Flea." For the complete study guide (including quotes, literary devices, analysis of the speaker, and more), click here. Summary. The speaker tells his beloved to look at the flea before them and to note “how little” is that thing that she denies him.
The Intimate Relationship between Sex and Death. In “The Flea,” the intimate relationship between sex and death plays out in both figurative and literal ways. On the figurative level, this relationship arises in the speaker’s use of wordplay. Consider, for example, lines 16–18: Though use make you apt to kill me, Let not to that, self ...
