ENGLISH 3RL6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Empiricism, Simile
11 Apr 2018
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It is an analogy of their love with their blood (cid:498)the flea(cid:499) The speaking and acting is going on at the exact time we"re reading it-> a spur of. Their bloodline would not continue if she gets rid of the outcome. The people are being shown as their blood the moment speech. He makes up a story that if she squashes the flea they will be murdered. The dialogue shows that the action is taking place now. Empiricism shows that this is not the case-> she calls his bluff. Honour, chastity-> they are just words and are not empirical values. Chastity is not her honour it is just a symbol-> his argument. Donne is always trying to get readers to work things out. Have your death not be frightening and so that it means something. It is more serious, there are lots of different images of death, and they are dangerous.
