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The Flea

”The Flea”
In this clever poem Donne uses a flea, blood, and the murder of the flea as an analogy for the oldest most primal exchange, sex. Donne, only through amazing symbolic imagery, not only questions the value of keeping virginity but also the importance of sex as it goes along with life. There are tons of metaphors used in “The Flea”, but the symbols repeated throughout the poem are hard to miss, beginning with the most noticeable, and the flea. This small nasty blood sucking creature is packed full of symbolic meaning, that is used everywhere. The flea is described as a marriage temple and a carrier of life, where their souls are forever “mingled” (line 4). Donne then goes on to describe that the flea has not taken hardly anything of importance from him after she kills it. All of this just goes to show how a little creature such as a flea, can be used to express ones love and life.
Starting off, the speaker starts talking about a flea, and how it is the symbol......


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