John Donnes The Flea
Poem: The Flea by John Donne
The Norton Anthology of English Literature defines the "conceits" of poetics as
metaphors that are intricately woven into the verse, often used to express satire, puns,
or deeper meanings within the poem, and to display the poet's own cunning with words.
The conceits of John Donne are said to "leap continually in a restless orbit from the
personal to the cosmic and back again." The outward nature of Donne's …
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…she is a noble and he is
not, so the suggestion that they mix blood is highly insulting, or that the entire subject he is
discussing is not modest enough for a maiden. Upon her smashing of his poetic world of marriage
and love, the man assures her that what she has done is of no consequence. He compares her fear
for her honor to the importance of the now dead flea, which is nothing.
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