Notes on The Flea - QUOTES, FORM AND STRUCTURE, CONTEXT
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- Created on: 01-05-15 16:55
The Flea
(Unrequited love, frustration, surprising imagery, humour…)
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“Mark but this flea, and mark in this” – urgent, imperative nature, dominant and exuberant, heightened by the repetition.
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“Confess it, this cannot be said”, “Oh, stay” – Imperatives: He is being ignored, controlling with frustrated tone. Love is a game/battle to be won.
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“****’d”, “two bloods mingled be”, “pamper’d swells” – surprising imagery with sexual connotations, crude or flirtatious? A03ii Extended metaphor/conceit. The speakers desire of sexual contact is shown by the urgency of this words. f and s – orthographic pun. Uses humour as a method of seduction through laughter. ‘about the most merely disgusting (poem) in our language.’
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“marriage bed, marriage temple.”, “The flea is you and I.”- References to religion and marriage, sex was sinful before marriage. A04 Humour – makes patently absurd comparisons. Religious connotations, metaphysical elements.
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“three sins in killing three”, “cruel and sudden”, “purpled by thy nail.”- Hyperbolic persuasion through placing of guilt. Semantic field of death to overwhelm her…
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