I will pay for the following essay Poetry Comparison: John Donnes The Fle and Death Be Not Proud. The essay is to be 5 pages with three to five sources, with in-text citations and a reference page.Dow

I will pay for the following essay Poetry Comparison: John Donnes The Fle and Death Be Not Proud. The essay is to be 5 pages with three to five sources, with in-text citations and a reference page.

The poem “The Flea” was written in 1630 (Brackett 179), which was evidently a period before the dawn of sexual revolution when premarital sex was still considered a social and moral taboo. In trying to seduce the lady in this poem, the speaker employs the trick of making it appear that engaging in it is harmless and not a big deal. To achieve this, the speaker creates a parallelism between a blood-sucking flea that has bitten them both and the act of engaging in the sexual act. This parallelism necessarily entails the use of metaphor as a literary device in the poem making it more interesting because of the unlikely, and laughter-provoking, comparison between a flea and the sexual act. Metaphor is defined as “the application of name or descriptive term to an object which is not literally applicable” (Eaglestone 93) and in “The Flea” this literary device is evident.

In the second stanza of the poem, for example, the speaker clearly compares the flea to a marriage bed. He does this for the purpose of driving home the point that having sex is not a big deal because his and the lady’s union has already been accomplished in the body of the flea after it has bitten and sucked blood from out both their bodies. Thus:

This flea is you and I, and this

Our marriage bed, and marriage temple is (Donne 1630).

Hyperbole is also a persistent element in the poem and its function here is to dramatize the point of the speaker that having sex should not be taken by the lady as something dishonorable or sinful. In the last three lines of the second stanza., for example, the speaker warns the lady that killing the flea is tantamount to the murder of three beings: the flea. the lady, and. the speaker. And when the lady cannot be stopped, he accuses her of “purpling thy nail in blood of innocence,” which is a metaphor for murder and a clear exaggeration and use of hyperbole as a literary device. Finally, the speaker latches on to the justification of the lady in killing the flea, viz.