| Front | John Donne The Flea Explore: 'Yet tis enjoys before it woo, And pampered swells with one blood made of two, And this, alas, is more than we would do.' x4(large) |
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| Back | •erotic pun 'enjoys before it woo' + 'swells' phallic imagery provides excessive erotic undertone - innuendo is too graphic for the time (lechery) •personification of the flea •theatrical exclamation to confound his sexual deprivation + woe •because blood already mingled should have sex anyway as believed blood mingled during sex |
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