My Mistress and Flea
...e Flea” poem has a different point of view about love. “The flea” is about sexuality, and seduction. In The Flea," the narrator tries to convince his beloved woman to have sex with him by comparing the act of sex to the insignificant, sinless bite of a flea. However, the narrator tries to make two points of view in his excuse. One is he wants to demonstrate that the flea is sinless and insignificance, but he also tries to convince his beloved that their union would be as grand and holy as the flea, which he compares to a "temple of marriage” he is telling that making love will be ok because when the flea mixed their blood inside or her, their lover were blessed as if they are married in that time. The tone of the poem is also another difference that makes these two poems very important. In “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun,” the tone is one of realism, contentment, and satirie. Shakespeare realizes that love is full of imperfections from the real world, and that only makes love grow stronger between them. He has come to realize that she is far from perfect, yet that does not take away from his love for her. Although he speaks of all of her weaknesses, he sounds satisfied with his love. Moreover, it’s satiric because Shakespeare is overwhelming with the idealistic woman that Petrarch describes in his poems; he wants everyone to know that happiness doesn’t come only with beauty. In another hand, the tone of the “The flea” poem is seductive, persuasive, physical, and snide. He wants to have sex with this woman so desperate that he makes this entire story or excuse around the flea. It sees that emotions and personality in this poem don’t count; all that he wants from his lover is sex or physical interaction with her. Furthermore, it is snide because he is comparing their intimate union with the belly of the flea which in my personal opinion is not a clean insect or is not a sign of purity. One similarity that both poems possess is the utilization of metaphors and symbolism in their verses. For instance in “My mistress’s eyes are nothing like the sun,” we can see an illustration of metaphors in this verse “If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.” The speaker expresses how the hair of her lover is not soft, silky and smooth. Moreover, there is a lot of symbolism in this poem which is about denying beauty. For example, we see this in the verse “My mistress’s eyes are nothing like the sun.” The speaker is saying that he does not see her eyes to be bright and clear like the sun. Furthermore, in “the Flea,” the metaphors are plentiful. An example could be “This flea is you and I, and this our marriage bed, and marriage temple is.” The speaker is picturing them inside of the flea, coming together at an altar. There is a lot of symbolism in this poem too. For instance the flea is symbolic of the act of sex from the ...