The metaphor is further enforced in lines 8 and 9 when Donne illustrates the image of the swollen flea "pampered swells with one blood made of two" (line 8) introducing the image of a baby, and the idea of pregnancy. With the possible allusion of a pregnancy Donne is emphasizing that he is attempting to sleep with the woman...
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With the possible allusion of a pregnancy Donne is emphasizing that he is attempting to sleep with the woman. Thus, Donne continues to use the image of a flea to unconventionally simplify lovemaking. The absurdity of the poem is portrayed through the use of a flea to convince a woman into bed, when a flea would typically connote repulsiveness, dependency, and something ugly and simple, which mooches off of others...
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The Flea The speaker uses the following lines of the stanza to reassure the woman that their act could not be considered a sin because a fleabite isn't considered as such...	4 / 1040
The Flea The speaker uses the following lines of the stanza to reassure the woman that their act could not be considered a sin because a fleabite isn't considered as such...	4 / 1040
The Flea Within the flea, he says, where their blood is mingled, the speaker goes on to explain how they are married, even more than married. “Where we almost, yea more than married are...	3 / 713
The Flea by John Donne It is true, he says, and it is this very fact that proves that her fears are false: If she were to sleep with him ("yield to me"), she would lose no more honor than she lost when she killed the flea...	3 / 698