The Flea. The speaker of . What on earth made him think this would be an effective pickup strategy? Did they not have roses and teddy bears in the seventeenth century? Actually, when you talk about John Donne you're talking about one of the master pickup artists of all time. Along with some of his British contemporaries – the so- called . You get the sense that when he wrote this poem he was thinking along the same lines as the rapper Kanye West when he started to sport those sunglasses that actually block your vision: . But let's not overstate the accomplishment. Fleas were a not- infrequent subject of seventeenth- century European painting. Then again, we are germ- o- phobic for a reason: the flea is now known to have contributed to the Black Plague that swept through Europe before Donne was even born. The point, though, is that the image of a flea sucking blood would not have automatically led a Renaissance audience to recoil in horror. Donne is famous for writing in at least two genres of poetry: erotic love poetry, like . Donne, we should add, was a well- known preacher who converted from Catholicism to Protestantism. Donne's poetry was not collected and published as a whole until after his death. It has been speculated that . OK, we're ripping off at least twelve coming- of- age films right now, but putting that aside.. Donne, summer camp, yes. There he is sitting on the dock, wearing his frilly lace tights, or whatever they wore during the English Renaissance. He has the boldness and self- centeredness of a teenager who thinks that the world is his oyster. Let's put aside the whole sex bit and say that he's just trying to get the girl next to him to give him a kiss. In his British accent, he's all, ! Everyone will think I'm easy! Later he argues that they are pretty much already kissing inside the mosquito, and nobody would call her easy because of that, so why don't they just get it over with and kiss for real already! Seriously, folks, that's the poem.
It's a slightly skeezy but charming boy trying to convince a girl to hook up with him despite her fears about developing a . It's a sticky- sweet coming- of- age poem, perfect for anyone who's ever been to summer camp.. English metaphysical poet and divine who served as chaplain to James I and as dean of Saint Paul's Cathedral (after 1621). His works include Divine Poems (1607). 1573–1631, English metaphysical. CROQUE-NOTE en CONCERT direction Philippe RICHEUX chanson de Boris VIAN et Henri SALVADOR.
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