1. The speaker is a very persuasive and religious man who seems to always want to be right. The speaker tries to put an image of him always being right but he is also much undecided as he changes his argument various times throughout the sonnet to convince himself that he is ultimately right.
2. The speaker is speaking to his lover who appears to demonstrate a lack of attention and love as well towards him. The speaker is trying to convince her to have a sexual relationship with him by using his religion as a sign of approval and reasoning, but she does not seem to be as interested as he is. An appropriate audience would be people who use religion to their advantage in order to get things that they want such as approval or power.
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The words sin and shame seem to be the best chosen words in the poem because they are important and essential to the poem’s meaning as well as showing the character’s argument. “Thou know’st that this cannot be said a sin, or shame, or loss of maidenhead” are very important words that in my opinion were the best chosen as they are essential to understanding the sonnet.
12. The predominant images in this sonnet of course revolve around the flea and the lovers. The image of the flea landing, sucking the speaker’s lover’s arm, and then being squashed are the most predominant images seen throughout the sonnet.
13. The speaker personifies the flea by saying that it is him and his lover and by the way that he gorges on his lover’s blood. The speaker also states that the flea represents their marriage. The flea is an insect but the speaker personifies it and so he says that if his lover kills it, she would also be killing him and her.
14. An understatement in this sonnet is the pressure that the speaker being a man put on his lover, a woman. The speaker pressured his lover throughout the sonnet to engage in a sexual relationship with him by saying that it would not be any more of a sin than their blood mixing inside the flea. The speaker wants his lover to do something that she does not feel comfortable yet doing especially since they are not married
2. The speaker is speaking to his lover who appears to demonstrate a lack of attention and love as well towards him. The speaker is trying to convince her to have a sexual relationship with him by using his religion as a sign of approval and reasoning, but she does not seem to be as interested as he is. An appropriate audience would be people who use religion to their advantage in order to get things that they want such as approval or power.
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The words sin and shame seem to be the best chosen words in the poem because they are important and essential to the poem’s meaning as well as showing the character’s argument. “Thou know’st that this cannot be said a sin, or shame, or loss of maidenhead” are very important words that in my opinion were the best chosen as they are essential to understanding the sonnet.
12. The predominant images in this sonnet of course revolve around the flea and the lovers. The image of the flea landing, sucking the speaker’s lover’s arm, and then being squashed are the most predominant images seen throughout the sonnet.
13. The speaker personifies the flea by saying that it is him and his lover and by the way that he gorges on his lover’s blood. The speaker also states that the flea represents their marriage. The flea is an insect but the speaker personifies it and so he says that if his lover kills it, she would also be killing him and her.
14. An understatement in this sonnet is the pressure that the speaker being a man put on his lover, a woman. The speaker pressured his lover throughout the sonnet to engage in a sexual relationship with him by saying that it would not be any more of a sin than their blood mixing inside the flea. The speaker wants his lover to do something that she does not feel comfortable yet doing especially since they are not married