The Flea

Blake Fletcher

AP English

The Flea

1.     Just before the poem began both of the people in the poem where bitten by a flea. I think that the women in the poem tries to kill the flea between the first and second stanza. I think that the women kills the flea between the second and third stanze. She acts like by killing the flea it has made both of them stronger.

2.     The past relationship between the speaker and the women seems to be that they are a couple. She “killed” the speaker when she killed the flea. He is still alive because she only killed a flea that he compared himself to. His objective in the poem is to get some action.

3.     The speaker says that because the flea sucked both his and the women’s blood that their blood is now considered significant because when a women and a males blood where meshed it usually meant the woman’s first lover. So he suggests that they should get funky because of this flea.

4.     Parents grudge could connect to the fact that pre marital sex was extremely frowned upon in that time. The three sins the woman commits are murder, Suicide, and sacrilege.

5.     The woman triumphs in killing the fly because it establishes that she is against sleeping with the man. It stops this insane pickup line. Though it angers the speaker and changes his outlook on the situation completely. He turns very dark in the end.

6.     I assume that the speaker may rape the women after the last three lines because it is extremely negative, and very dark. He says “When thou yield’st to me” almost like a demand.

7.     Both of these poems start off as positive ways to hit on a girl but in the end of the flea it gets very gloomy and dark. That differs from “The Apparition” stays positive in tone the whole time.