LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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a romantic poem
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an Elegy
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a religious poem
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an Ode
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Detailed explanation-1: -"The Flea” is an erotic metaphysical poem (first published posthumously in 1633) by John Donne (1572–1631).
Detailed explanation-2: -’The Flea’ is a 17th-century English poem by John Donne and uses a flea as a metaphor to explore the sexual union between a man and a woman.
Detailed explanation-3: -Donne decided on his religious allegiance when he was of an age to make that choice, and his decision is not recorded by anyone other than himself because it was unremarkable and legal. Almost every account of John Donne’s life begins by saying that he was brought up a Catholic or a recusant Catholic.
Detailed explanation-4: -Donne is never didactic in his religious poetry but exposes himself, to analyze and lay bare his own moods of agitation, aspiration, and of humiliation, in the quest for God, and the surrender of his soul to him. The general theme of Donne’s religious poetry is the frailty and decay of the world.
Detailed explanation-5: -Though the metaphor is intentionally pretty crude, maybe even juvenile, the speaker infuses the poem with religious undertones: the union of speaker and mistress in the flea is like the Holy Trinity.