The_Flea

The Flea In the poem, The Flea, John Donne demonstrates grief, shame, anxiety and pain with the touch of his pen. In the poem, the cry of a past abortion experienced by the man who impregnated a young and inexperienced girl touches and visits the many thoughts and feelings that young couples endure in such circumstances. Every line in the poem had a message of grief and disbelief; the character mourned the agonizing end of what could have been something so beautiful, a new life. The poem begins with: “Mark but this flea, and Mark in this How little that which thou deny’st me is; It sucked me first, and Now sucked thee, And in this flea our two bloods mingled be; Thou know’st that this cannot be said A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead.” This first lines explains how the impregnated girl does not give in to the implorations of the young man to go on with the pregnancy; the desperate young man claims that the flea (his sperm) was inside him at first and found its way to her; moreover, the flea became a fertilized egg, now, growing inside her. This fertilized egg flea, egg, life, john, young, poem, lines, donne, girl, two, three, thou, abortion, unborn, new, man, killing, fertilized, saying, pain, out, one, now, act, sucked, something, shame, person, nor, marriage, mark, made, love, lives, inside