In Donne's day fleas were everywhere and must have driven people crazy - from the poor peasant to the noble lady - anyone's skin was an open invitation to the blood sucking flea. Vibrations caused by human movement liberate adult fleas from pupae hidden in cracks leading to attacks by hungry fleas. Sheltered in the living body of the flea. The man admits she could be right...'Tis true'... but, in a last attempt to win her over...'when thou yield'st to me'... he says that only her honor will be lost, a trivial matter, just like the killing of the flea. 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Two things are compared in a witty, ingenious or alternative way. He uses the word “Mark”, which is used to convey something very important. { bidder: 'triplelift', params: { inventoryCode: 'Cambridge_MidArticle' }}, { bidder: 'sovrn', params: { tagid: '705055' }}, There was a preponderance of female fleas available during the first days of emergence from a batch of cocoons. 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The weekly count of eggs and larvae from each experimental cage was divided by the number of female fleas, introduced initially or subsequently counted in the nest. googletag.pubads().disableInitialLoad(); { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195451', size: [300, 50] }}, It is a fine thing to be a flea on a lion. Line 16 has two trochees (apt to kill me) which break the iambic flow suddenly whilst line 18 offers a spondee to focus on three sins being committed. },{ { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195464', size: [160, 600] }}, },{ { bidder: 'criteo', params: { networkId: 7100, publisherSubId: 'cdo_rightslot2' }}, bids: [{ bidder: 'rubicon', params: { accountId: '17282', siteId: '162036', zoneId: '776160', position: 'atf' }}, { bidder: 'appnexus', params: { placementId: '11654156' }}, Flea definition, any of numerous small, wingless bloodsucking insects of the order Siphonaptera, parasitic upon mammals and birds and noted for their ability to leap. name: "identityLink", }; }, { bidder: 'pubmatic', params: { publisherId: '158679', adSlot: 'cdo_topslot' }}]}, { bidder: 'sovrn', params: { tagid: '346693' }}, { bidder: 'onemobile', params: { dcn: '8a9690ab01717182962182bb50ce0007', pos: '8a9699e70178783c43f941652a820248' }}, When they took it home in the car, they noticed that it was bleeding from its rear end, and was covered in fleas. { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195451', size: [320, 50] }}, // FIXME: (temporary) - send ad requests only if PlusPopup is not shown 'increment': 0.5, And that word cloistered comes from cloister, a covered walkway in a monastery. 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Since in the flea their blood is mixed together, he says that they have already been made as one in the body of the flea. 'max': 8, bids: [{ bidder: 'rubicon', params: { accountId: '17282', siteId: '162050', zoneId: '776336', position: 'btf' }}, initAdSlotRefresher(); 'min': 3.05, In the rat-trypanosome there occurs a contaminative infection through the dejecta of the fleas or lice which attack a fresh host. In the third stanza the speaker, aware that she has killed the flea, is close to admitting defeat. Other product and company names shown may be trademarks of their respective owners. Many lines allude to sex, such as the way the insect “swells” with blood in line eight to suggest a man's erection. A symbol of our togetherness, more than marriage. Therefore our two bloods mingle in the flea; And you know there is no way it could be called. iasLog("criterion : cdo_tc = resp"); J OHN DONNE IS HORNY, and, like a flea, John Donne Technically, it’s improper to conflate the author of a work with the work’s narrator. In his attempt to persuade his would be lover the man focuses on a flea, a parasite that has sucked blood from them both. pbjs.que = pbjs.que || []; ! { bidder: 'ix', params: { siteId: '195451', size: [300, 50] }}, }] { bidder: 'triplelift', params: { inventoryCode: 'Cambridge_HDX' }}, After treatment with insecticide to remove fleas, 9 or 10 rabbits were housed in each pen. Besides, the flea pricked her and got what it wanted without having to woo her. { bidder: 'appnexus', params: { placementId: '11654174' }}, {code: 'ad_leftslot', pubstack: { adUnitName: 'cdo_leftslot', adUnitPath: '/23202586/cdo_leftslot' }, mediaTypes: { banner: { sizes: [[120, 600], [160, 600], [300, 600]] } }, He asks how the flea could have been guilty of anything except taking one small, teensy drop of her blood. The speaker pushes the religious envelope further by describing the flea's body as a "temple" in which their marriage is consecrated. Note the opening strong trochee (Mark but) in the first line and an energetic spondee (bloods mingled) in the fourth. Though use / make you / apt to / kill me,Let not / to that, / self-mur / der add / ed be,And sac / rilege, / three sins / in kill / ing three. var googletag = googletag || {}; The Flea is a poem that takes the reader into the heart of an intimate space. 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