The Flea: Analysis In the poem The Flea by John Donne he is talking to his the woman he loves. He would like to make love to her and she will not respond to his needs. The relationship between the flea and sexual intercourse in this poem is an unflattering comparison described with unique detail. In the first stanza of the poem Donne says: Mark but this flea, and mark in this, How little that which thou deny'st me is; It suck'd me first, and now sucks thee, And in this flea, our two bloods mingled be;(1-4) The stanza says to the lady that she should pay attention to the flea and that inside the tiny insect both of their blood has been mixed. The second stanza proposes that sex before marriage is all right Thou know'st that this cannot be said A sin, nor shame, nor the loss of maidenhead, Yet this enjoys before it woo, And pamper'd swells w....

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