Name:- Dhruvi ChavdaBatch:- 2014-15Class:- Sem- 1

Roll No:- 7Subject:- John Donne’s PoetryPaper:- Renaissance literature

The Flea

John Donne was the meta physical poet. He was the

pioneer of meta physical poetry. The Flea is a

biographical image used by John Donne.

It is a very small insects, which sucks our blood.

It can fly.

This is a love poem.

Here, the flea sucks blood of both the lovers.

The lover request his lover to not to kill the flea.

The flea means the lover and his beloved.

Both have already became one in the stomach of

the

flea.

The is described as a marriage bed and marriage

Temple.

The lover wants his beloved to learn a lesson from

that flea.

Death, Be not Proud

‘Death, Be not proud’ is one of holy sonnets

written by John Donne.

This sonnet expresses the ultimate reality called death.

The poet addresses to death saying that there is no

Need for death to be proud.

Here, death means rest to bones.

Death itself is a slave of fate, chance and kings.

There are three places where death

lives forever.

Those places are : War, Poison And Sickness.

Donne concludes his sonnet saying that death need

not become proud.

Thank you………….