The Flea

                                            The Flea

The Flea is a remarkable metaphysical poem of John Donne. He makes use of a biological image of the flea for the expression of the theme of love. It is an exceptional image to deal with the theme of love Done avoids the use of traditional images and brings the image of the flea to deal with love the poem is addressed by the lover of his beloved the lover expresses love, proposes to her and she refuses it because of her sense of sin, shame and maidenhood. She does not respond to her lover because she considered it a matter of sin and shame it is because of her refusal that the lover gives example of the flea, the flea has first suck his blood, now it’s sucks her blood, so their bloods have mingled in that flea it is neither sin nor shame. The lover tries to convince her that they are more then married in the living walls of that flea, that flea is now their marriage bed and marriage church.

Listening to such a speech of the lover, the lady tries to killed that flea and again the lover trays to convince her not to killed that flea he request her not to make her nails purpled in the blood of that flea the reason is, it will be a sin of killing three lives – life of that flea, life of the lover and killing herself. The lover wants her not to commit it dangerous sin of self murder she does not followed the request of that lover and kills the flea.

The third stanza of the poem is given to the lovers attempt to convince her that all her fears are ground less, both because one in that flea and yet it was not a sin or shame, the same way if she accepts his proposal, it will not be sin or shame. The lover is of the opinion that by accepting his proposal, she will bring honor to herself. The lover wants’ her to realized that accepting proposal is not the lost of honor on the contrary it brings honor to a woman, so she should part with her fear, sense of sin and shame.

From the Amoretti

                                   From the Amoretti

This is a poem of the 89 sonnets of Faerie Queen. This is 75th sonnet about love and desire. Spencer wrote as a part of courtship of his second wife Elizabeth Boyle. 

In the very first few lines the poet talks about the efforts that he took to moralize the name of his beloved.

One fine day he started writing his beloved’s name upon the strand but waves became his enemies as it washed the name of his beloved.

Still after the first frailer he did not gave up and again tried to write her beloved’s name but once again tide come and washed it away. The pain has very well express in the line by the poem,

         “But the tide came and made my pains his prey”. 

In the next few lines the poet talks about the efforts that moralize his beloved’s name. His beloved may watching him from somewhere and expresses her sorrow on all her lover’s failure.

The poet expresses the feeling because he was scared that as a way that nature wiped out the name of beloved his fear is that his name can be wiped out likewise.

In the last lines of the poem the poet expressed his fear and he still will continued his efforts to eternize the name of his beloved. And consoles her by saying that the she many “ die in dust” but she will live by fame. She would be in the memory by her virtue she will live in verse even after death. Death will subdue the entire world. That poet expressed all his feeling of love for his beloved.

Thus in this poem the poet do many efforts to mortalize his beloved name and remember her long time.