Enduring Love By John Donne Analysis
When the sun has been portrayed as an intruder in the lovers’ private room, the flea is deemed to be the witness of another lovers’ love and conflicts. Usually, people are accustomed to using beautiful metaphors to bless their enduring love. However, Donne, in this poem, reverses the conventional image of the fleas, which are disgusted by most of the human beings. From John Donne’s point of view, the fleas are another forms of representations of sacred love and marriage, which will not tolerate any violations of its authority.