Part one of term paper
In the poem The Flea by John Donne he is talking to his the woman he loves. He would like to make love to her and she will not respond to his needs. The relationship between the flea and sexual intercourse in this poem is an unflattering comparison described with unique detail. In the first stanza of the poem Donne says: Mark but this flea, ...

Part two of term paper
... marriage is all right Thou know'st that this cannot be said A sin, nor shame, nor the loss of maidenhead, Yet this enjoys before it woo, And pamper'd swells with one blood made of two, And this, alas, is more than we would do.(5-9) This stanza also says that the flea enjoys the mixing of blood which is referred to as sex. It is the authors comment that they have intercourse within the flea but that is more than the two of them do together. Saying to her that this would not be adultery su ...