I believe "The Flea" by John Donne is about a couple who are stuck in their relationship. The speaker wants more from the relationship, while the girl is content in where they are at. The flea is used to represent their relationship. The girl wants to kill the flea and doing so, the speaker says she would be killing them too. The poem ends by the girl killing the Flea and the speaker states that because she killed the flea, she didnt lose any self respect so why cant they move forward in their relationship. The reason I believe this is what the poem is about due to these lines:
"This flea is you and I. " - showing the couples relationship
"Is more than we would do." - Relationship status
"Let not to that, self-murder added be." - Killing the flea, would be self- murder
"Find'st not thy self, nor me the weaker now." - No change in the way the are viewed by killing the flea
"Just so much honor, when thou yield'st to me." - The speaker is asking why they cant move forward, when there was no change in killing the flea, so furthering their relationship would have no change.
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