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    “The Flea” by John Donne and “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell are two poems classified as carpe diem. Carpe diem is Latin phrase for “Seize the day”. Both speakers use the ideals of carpe diem to persuade the auditor to live in the moment. They do this by saying that the auditor is young and beautiful and that they are meant to be. Although both speakers try their best to persuade the auditor to have sex with them, the speaker in “To his coy mistress” impresses the auditor the best. In…

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    Love can be expressed in numerous ways. From the earliest times, poetry has been used to express one’s love. Such is the case in these two poems to be discussed here: “Sonnet 130” by William Shakespeare and “The Flea” by John Donne. Donne is known for his dense erotic poems and Shakespeare is greatly appreciated for his rich and numerous sonnets and plays of varied interests throughout literature history. Therefore, here the plot, tone, expression and meaning of the poems by Shakespeare and…

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    life ruining choice. While today we might attribute this to the woman’s rights movement, and rightly so, we cannot forget those who spoke out against the absurdity that women would become tainted or somehow harmed by consensual love. Done’s poem “The Flea” and Marvell’s poem “To His Coy Mistress” made subtle arguments in favor of a woman’s right to…

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    Lie Down With Dogs, Get Up With Fleas Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas. It means when hanging out with the wrong people or the wrong crowd, a person could get in trouble or get a bad reputation. A good example of this is when my best friend *Jim and I went to Garden City to a church event. About two years ago my best friend Jim and I were on our way to Garden to the church event. Jim was a somewhat of a bad person Jim has gotten in more trouble than I have. He has gotten in trouble with…

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    “Faster, you tramps, you flea-ridden dogs!” is one of the belittled comments Elie Wiesel endured on one of his last Nazi marches. The Nazis belittled and dehumanized anyone who was different then them. Wiesel accounted many stories on his encounter of dehumanization, from sleeping on straw layered bunks, endless runs, being constantly filthy, barely any food, to being tortured and gassed, and also having your religious views taken from you. All of these can ruin a person not only externally but…

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    Fear can be immobilizing. While some fears are irrational such as the fear of heights or stairs, some fears that manifest are not so irrational. The fear of persecution is one of the latter. From the birth of our human existence to present day persecution has existed. Some are persecuted because of the color, some because of their lack of social station, but what we, a humans, truly thrive on for our source of persecution is religion. People have massacred for it for and later been massacred…

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    The Flea and Death, be not Proud Poems are very useful tool that we can use to improve and understand the world around us; however, there are a very big amount of poems that we can read and understand. Some poems are more complicated than others, for that reason we need to choose what fits our skills, situations, and understanding capabilities. There are a lot of differences when it comes to poems such as rhetorical strategies that are used when writing a poem or the tone of each writer.…

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    How To Keep Your Pet Essay

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    Case Of Flea & Tick Attacks On Pet Picture this! You have a pet which is an epitome of health & happiness. He/she is the one who keeps you happy in life. You give him/her unconditional love & care in terms of medications, foods & much more to ensure that he/she lives a super comfortable…

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    Black Death Disease

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    wiped out by this disease, and was very easily spread from person t person. There was, though, many contributors to the spread of the Black Death. The Black Death had many causes including rats living very near and traveling with large populations, fleas, who were the carriers for this terrible disease, and that the disease was contracted very easily. These are three main reasons why the Black Death was spread so quickly among Europe and Asia. One cause of the Black Death is that rats lived so…

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    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…

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