Donne uses the Flea in this poem to explain how he is trying to take his lovers virginity. He Places images in the reader's mind of the importance of sex in a person's life. The flea is so small but in this poem it represents something so big. John Dunn was not the first to use a flea in his poems, in fact, during the time period lots of writers were using it. John writes, “Mark but this flea, and mark in this, how little that which deny’st me is” (886). To me this means how small the flea is. A women denying a man sex is something so small and insignificant. A flea is the symbol of something so small like the womens decision.
