"The Flea" a poem by John Donne, is one young man's struggle to get a girl into bed. He uses a simple flea to sell his argument. The speaker, stanza by stanza, goes from rationalizing, to desperately grasping for a hold to his argument, and then trying to salvage what's left of his argument to get his female companion into bed. He tries every step of the way.
As the first stanza of "The Flea" begins, the poem's speaker wastes no time in revealing his driving motivation. Instructing his female companion to take note of a flea that's been lunching on the two of them, the speaker impertinently directs her to "mark in this" (1) flea how trifling and insignificant
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Approximate Word count = 451
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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