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The Flea Tone
Poetry: Tone, Voice, Meaning and Sound
John Donne’s ‘The Flea’ is a metaphysical love poem that takes the usage of a hilarious erotic narrative. The main theme of the poem is seduction that is shown using a persuasive vanity of a meek flea. The extremely original symbol of the flea is utilized to show unconventionally that both lovers are already adjoined in church and God’s eyes since the flea had bite off their bodies and intermingled with their blood. The tone used in the poem is extremely dramatic, ironic and farcically amusing. The creative and unorthodox speaker provides arguments of philosophical and theological that rest in the irrational authority that their merger has already been completed in the flea's little body (Gioia, 2011).
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