| Front | Explore John Donne The Flea: 'Though parents grudge, and you, we are met And cloistered in these living walls of jet.' x4 |
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| Back | •Means although both her and her parents object to sex between them, they are conjoined by the flea => 'met' •'cloistered' double meaning 'closeted' and to be joined within a cloister or monastery. •'living walls of jet' refers back to the flea as 'marriage temple', but adds the objectivity of the flea's black (jet) body •therefore, he links physical union to the purity and spirituality of nuns and monks |
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