Flea John Donne
The Flea and A Fever are two different poems written by John Donne. However, both discuss the same theme of love. The two poems are different in the kind of love, the picture of women in both, and in the structure.
First of all, the two poems deal with the same topic which is love but of course from very different views. The Flea speaks about pure physical love and how does the poet can convince his beloved to do what he wants. He uses the flea as a symbol of their love where in it their blood are mingled. For Donne, it is their 'marriage temple' in which they become one 'one blood made of two'. By that way, he attempts to convince her of what he wants her to do. Donne does not used love as something spiritual or related to feelings or emotion, but it is concerned of the outside, it is just physically. On the other hand, in A Fever, love is more than a feeling based on outside beauty or the physical appearance of the beloved. It deals with a pure and spiritual senses. That is clear in the affection that the poem has and the reader can …show more content…
Both poems' structure consistent with their meanings and effects. The Flea was written in three stanzas, each one has nine lines and ends with triplet rhymed as aabbccddd. This gives the poem more powerful effect help the poet in his argument. He speaks about three characters, three lives, three murders, so it is three stanzas consist of three threes lines. Each one of those stanza presents a stage, a different part of the poet's argument. That will be more convincing. In A Fever, it consists of seven stanzas rhymed as abab, which gives the poem a sad musical tone compatible with the topic of the poem. Also, the poem's building in that way gives the reader a feeling of passing death's stages and the poet's suffering and agony through this as he describes what she means to him. So, in different structures, Donne conveys his feelings and attitudes to the
First of all, the two poems deal with the same topic which is love but of course from very different views. The Flea speaks about pure physical love and how does the poet can convince his beloved to do what he wants. He uses the flea as a symbol of their love where in it their blood are mingled. For Donne, it is their 'marriage temple' in which they become one 'one blood made of two'. By that way, he attempts to convince her of what he wants her to do. Donne does not used love as something spiritual or related to feelings or emotion, but it is concerned of the outside, it is just physically. On the other hand, in A Fever, love is more than a feeling based on outside beauty or the physical appearance of the beloved. It deals with a pure and spiritual senses. That is clear in the affection that the poem has and the reader can …show more content…
Both poems' structure consistent with their meanings and effects. The Flea was written in three stanzas, each one has nine lines and ends with triplet rhymed as aabbccddd. This gives the poem more powerful effect help the poet in his argument. He speaks about three characters, three lives, three murders, so it is three stanzas consist of three threes lines. Each one of those stanza presents a stage, a different part of the poet's argument. That will be more convincing. In A Fever, it consists of seven stanzas rhymed as abab, which gives the poem a sad musical tone compatible with the topic of the poem. Also, the poem's building in that way gives the reader a feeling of passing death's stages and the poet's suffering and agony through this as he describes what she means to him. So, in different structures, Donne conveys his feelings and attitudes to the