John Donne is addressing this lady of
his and he has seen a flea suck some of her blood
and suck some of his blood so basically their blood have mingled.
And he is saying because this is done then technically sex has been made
and they should just have sex. Let me just explain the background to
this. From the upper 1500s
to the lower 1600s when John
Donne lived, they believe that when two people have sex
that their bloods mingled, so their bloods mingled and it was deemed very
impure to have had sex out of marriage
then your bloods would have mingled with
other people's [blood] so people who have had lots of sex
have lots of different blood are very impure
The idea is this
the flea has already sucked
his blood and her blood basically they've already done the deed
their bloods have mingled so why not just complete the physical attributes
that goes like "To His Coy Mistress" he is just saying
"seize the day". Sex now. That's pretty much his argument here.
Using the flea as his
persuasive technique.The first line begins
with the imperative "mark but this flea, and mark in this"
and he says how little that did deniest me is he's saying
the flea is so little, he's saying that the actual flea is physically little
and the act of sex she is denying
is little also. The first stanza can be considered to have a lexical
sexual language seventh and the second stanza can be considered to have a lexical set of religious
language.
In it he saw the imperative overstay
three lives in one flea spare but he said locker
because you have my she is trying to kill
great and he's earned three lives in one please
that weakens this plutonium symbolizes
his life her life and the please so basically
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well-intentioned is sacrilege Christian marriage temple absolutely makes
the whole act in the flea
seem symbolic como se and this is just
aiding his his own at the end of the second stanza is the essence of British
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and that is it this is our min the third stanza
suggest let's because he kill because she killed the plea
has to be done now because it has to be done in order
they have to have sex in honorably because it doesn't die in vain
what by using the color hell
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