Monday, March 28, 2011

The Flea

I believe the enitre poem of the flee is talking about virginity an losing it.  In the poem it states," This flea is you  and I, and this [o]ur marriage bed and marriage temple is" (Donne 12-13)  This is showing that the flea is both two in one, and after losing your virginity essentially that is what you are supposed to be because you are supposed to lose your virginity after marriage.  When it states "Purpled thy nail in blood of innocence?"(Donne 20), I feel like it is trying to show the innocence that left the two who were making love.  I also saw it in a different way.  I perceived some parts as the Holy Trinity and Christ's Death because in some parts it said three in one, and the innocence quote would work for showing an example of God's death.  I am not sure if either of these are practicle, but I enjoyed the poem. 

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