1. The Effects of Language, Imagery and verse form in
... been alternative suggestions of a pun on "flea" and "flee", in reference to the fleeting nature of love). He emphasizes that the mingling of their blood within the flea was presently occurring, explained through vivid imagery, such as "and cloystered in these living walls of Jet". Nature actively combines, mingles, and ... of virginity. In Donne's day it was thought that sexual intercourse literally involved the combination of bodies, making one of two. The union of their blood is satisfactory for him, as it doesn't require him to woo her. This imagery of the flea and its violation of th...
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