Dont Believe Everything Your Told

Jacques Hurst

Mrs. Keigan

ENG 1020

9/22/2014

Poetry Essay

Don’t Believe Everything Your Told

My Grandmother used to say, “Touch her heart, not her body. Steal her attention, not her virginity. Maker her smile, don’t waste her tears”. Sadly, we live in a world where men will do and say anything to take a women’s virginity. Because our society have come accustomed for women to lose their virginity before marriage, more and more women are losing their virginity at a younger age. Women are nowadays not even a virgin before they get married, and that’s the sad truth. However, there are still some women who value the sanctity of marriage, and are willing to wait and keep their virginity for their husband. The speakers uses words like “two bloods mingled be” (4), comparing their connection from a flea bite, sarcastically describing the speakers attempt to try to persuade the auditor to establish a sexual union with him. The speaker’s explanation that the flea having “mixed their blood as one” shows the reader how clever and resourceful the speaker is. Therefore, the speaker’s persuasive and lustful interactions toward the speaker in John Donne’s “The Flea” makes the reader aware of the speaker’s personality and motivations throughout the poem.

According to the speaker, the flea is the main object that bonded them together as one and because of that they should establish a sexual union together. The speaker tries to propose an argument to the auditor stating, “A sin, nor shame, nor loss, of maidenhead; yet this enjoys before it woo, and pamper’d swells with one blood made of two” (6-8). Therefore, the speaker is initially trying to tell the women that having sex would not be no sin or loss of virginity because the flea has already mingled their blood as one. This remark by the speaker clearly shows the motivation that the speaker is willing to make something as ridiculous as a flea be the main cause in his attempt to try to bed her. Furthermore, the speaker...