PosterĄG Gina Huang at 18:32:48 3/22/98 from h48.s32.ts30.hinet.net
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| In this poem, the flea is used to talk
the woman into making love with the speaker. "Me it sucked first, and now sucks thee, And in this flea our two bloods mingled be;" He said that since you might be pregnant anyway, why not go to bed with me? Our bloods mixed together now, and that means we had some kind of relationship. Though you lose your maidenhead, it's no big deal! "Yet this enjoys before it woo," Does "this" means the flea? The flea enjoys the rapture and it needn't woo. The flea is so lucky that it can have the ecstasy that the speaker can't have and it doesn't spend time courting the woman! "And pampered swells with one blood made of two, And this, alas, is more than we would do." This describes the satisfaction of the flea. The flea swelled because it sucked the bloods of two. Then the speaker sighed. This little flea can enjoy the pleasure of sex but not us! It obtains more than us! Conceit is any fanciful, ingenious expression or idea, but especially one in the form of an extended metaphor. The flea is the woman, the speaker and the marriage bed. The speaker told the woman not to kill the flea because this is a self-murder! If the woman kill the flea, she might commit three sins. The swelling flea is the pregnancy, in my mind. If she killed the swelling flea, that means she killed their own baby! But she still killed the flea, cruel and sudden. The speaker said, how could you do this to a blameless flea? That flea is not guilty at all! It just sucked one drop of your blood, and you put it to death? One drop of blood is no big deal. Your purple nail slaughtered the blood of innocence. Why the speaker use "purple?" Purple is the symbol of aristocratic and noble. But I still can't understand why he used purple. He also said only the woman yielded to him that the death of the flea is not wasted. Because of fear, you killed that flea. But there is nothing to be afraid of. The speaker still tried to coax her. The swelling flea is their precious baby, but the woman's cruelty made the flea died. Only by mixing their bloods again can they have another baby. That's why the speaker tried to urge her by means of the flea. Men will try everything to seduce women to go to bed with them. Did they really do it because of love? I don't think so. Most men can do it without love. They just have that impulsion or sudden urge and they would say anything to woo women. So, don't trust any man unless you feel he is serious. But how can I tell? That's a hard question. |