| Front | How would readers responde to The Flea - John Donne? x2 |
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| Back | •It is difficult to reconcile the speaker’s proposal with contemporary attitudes about chastity which makes less convincing as a poem about spiritual love; his tone is flippant when he urges in the triplet that this ’cannot be said/ a sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead’. •An early 17th century society would have strongly disapproved of pre-marital sex especially for women and so his manipulation seems at best naïve and at worst scheming. |
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