As a former AP Lit teacher, “The Flea” is absolutely about convincing someone to have sex with you, which is actually how I sold it to students who thought poetry was boring 😂
when we read "The Flea" in my British Literature I course (one of my favorite courses) the professor was confident we were able to figure this out lol.
Those doctrinal references in Donne's "The Flea," that the flea's stomach is the cosanguinous, sacramental rite and "marriage bed," and also a mystical Trinitarian copresence, spirit and Christ-body, would have amused Jewish Leopold had he reflected with a Dubliner's relentlessly sardonic humor how all those Catholic ecstasies are really just appetitive bugs-stuck-together in prosaic plain view. Nice cue-up for Nausicaa.
As a former AP Lit teacher, “The Flea” is absolutely about convincing someone to have sex with you, which is actually how I sold it to students who thought poetry was boring 😂
when we read "The Flea" in my British Literature I course (one of my favorite courses) the professor was confident we were able to figure this out lol.
there are no ifs and or buts about it!! I wish I could remember what the end goal of reading it was if I wasn't supposed to say that.
Those doctrinal references in Donne's "The Flea," that the flea's stomach is the cosanguinous, sacramental rite and "marriage bed," and also a mystical Trinitarian copresence, spirit and Christ-body, would have amused Jewish Leopold had he reflected with a Dubliner's relentlessly sardonic humor how all those Catholic ecstasies are really just appetitive bugs-stuck-together in prosaic plain view. Nice cue-up for Nausicaa.