This presentation is a part of my academic presentation of The Renaissance Literature , Department of M A English M K Bhavnagar University and it is submitted to Prof. Dr Dilip Barad sir .

2. JOHN DONNE
John Donne (1573-
1631).
John Donne, the
master of
metaphysical
poetry.

4.  What is flea ?
 Flea is so little
creature.
 This poetry in 3
stanza.
 So beautiful showing
to John Donne.

5. METAPHYSICLE POETRY?
 Meta means ‘ After ‘
 Metaphysical means ‘After the physical ‘
 Metaphysices deals with the questions
that can’t be explained by science.
 Metaphysical poetry is highly intellectual.
 There is a use of strange imaginary.
 Metaphysical poems are lyric poems .
 Which contains extremely complicated
thought .

6. THE FLEA
 The flea is erotic metaphysical
poem by john donne .
 The exact date of its
composition is unknown .
 The poem uses the conceit of
a flea, which has sucked
blood from the male speaker
and his female lover , to serve
as an extended metaphor for
the relationship between
them.
 The speaker tries to convince
a lady to sleep with him ,
arguing that it their blood
mingling in would also be
innocent .

7.  Donne is able to hint at the sensual without clearly
referring to sex, using images such as the flea (line 8)
:
“ And pampered swells with one blood made of two
.
 This evokes the idea if a creation . The speaker
complains (line 9) :
“And this , alas is more then we would do “
 He holds the flea up in the second stanza saying that
:
“Our marriage bed , and marriage temple is ;”
 He argues that by killing the flea, she would be killing
herself , and the flea itself

8.  The lady, in the third stanza, kills the flea,
presumably rejecting the speaker’s advances
.
 He then claims she will lose no more honor
when she decides to sleep whit him then she
did when she killed the flea .

9. “SWEETEST LOVE I DO NOT GO”(1611)
 Was written by a John Donne for his wife Ann Moore .
 In the poem , Donne is preparing to go on a journey , but
his wife is afraid of what will happen to him on the journey
and does not want him to go .
 John Donne convinces her that he will be alright and tells
her that the time alone will actually prepare her for the
possibility of his death in the future .
 Through the poem , Donne expresses his passionate love
for his wife by argument and reason.
 Donne also dwells on the transience of life and mankind’s
suffering.
 Thus , donne moves from the personal realm to the
universal realm , in order to clothe his poem with a
significant relevance.