blog writing #the flea

The poem, the Flea, is a humor-infused metaphorical expression of a need for romantic affairs between the speaker and addressee. The speaker addresses a lady he likes and wants to have sexual relations with. He uses the metaphorical expression of a flea to explain why they are better off together. In the third line of the first stanza, the speaker says, “it sucked me first, and now sucks thee.” This means that the same fly that bit the speaker and the girl he is interested in. In the fourth line of the first stanza, he continues to claim that their blood has now been mixed, “And in this flea, our two bloods mingled be.”