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John Donne (1572-1631) 1.?His life 2.?His literary career Songs and Sonnets---love lyrics Devotions upon Emergent Occasions---- sacred verses 3.His writing style conceit peculiar verse form strange imagesConceit (巧智） is a precise and detailed comparison of something more remote or abstract with something more present or concrete. The metaphysical conceit is a characteristic figure in John Donne and other metaphysical poets of the 17th century, whose comparisons were often novel，witty and sometimes too odd to be understood.The Flea Mark but this flea, and mark in this, How little that which thou deniest me is; Me it sucked first, and now sucks thee, And in this flea our two bloods mingled be; Thou know’st that this cannot be said A sin, or shame, or loss of maidenhead, Yet this enjoys before it woo, And pampered swells with one blood made of two, And this, alas, is more than we would do. 　 Oh stay, three lives in one flea spare, Where we almost, nay more than married are. This flea is you and I, and this Our marriage bed and marriage temple is; Though parents grudge, and you, we are met, And cloistered in these living walls of jet. Though use make you apt to kill me, Let not to that, self-murder added be, And sacrilege, three sins in killing three Cruel and sudden, hast thou since Purpled thy nail in blood of innocence? Wherein could this flea guilty be, Except in that drop which it sucked from thee? Yet thou triump’st, and say’st that thou Findst not thy self nor me the weaker now; ‘Tis true; then learn how false fears be: Just so much honor, when thou yieldst to me, Will waste, as this fleas death took life from thee. 《跳蚤》赏析 ? 这是邓恩被收录最多的诗篇之一。诗作以诗人向情人求爱的说话体写成，语气富有调侃，比附出乎通常想象，推理和结论也超乎意料，典型反映了邓恩式的奇想。 诗的语气和结构富有典型的邓恩式戏剧性：第一段中，诗人看见了那只先后盯过两人的跳蚤，便指着它向情人证明两人的鲜血已通过一只先后叮咬了双方的跳蚤溶为一体，而血的交融则意味着生命的交融，诗人因此推断，两人的生命已经在事实上结合在一起了；第二段，诗人发现情人正抬手欲向跳蚤打去，便急忙劝阻，说这样一来，被害的就是三条性命（你、我、跳蚤）；第三段时，对方显然已经下手，掐死了跳蚤，所以诗人戏谑地称对方为“残忍”、“用无辜者的鲜血把自己的指甲染得红紫”。这时，对方回答说，虽然“我”的血也在它（跳蚤）体内，可我并没有因为它的