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VashaNatasha [74]
3 years ago
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What does the phrase "purpled thy nail" refer to in this excerpt from "The Flea" by John Donne?

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2 answers:
zysi [14]3 years ago
8 0
It is the loss of the beloved's innocence symbolized by the flea because <span>later in that stanza, the beloved is obviously represented by the flea. Also the theme of the poem is sex and virtue, the loss of innocence is key.

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Maksim231197 [3]3 years ago
3 0

Answer:

The phrase "purpled thy nail" refers to the shared blood of the speaker and his beloved in the flea.

Explanation:

"The Flea" by John Donne is a poem where a lover wants to have premarital sex and in his attempts to convince her beloved one they get bitten by a flea, which he uses as reference of their blood together as one inside of the insect and then when he receives a negative answer and he tries to kill the insect and his lover says that would be sui*cide and a murder because it has their blood in it, he told her that it doesn't have a major importance to kill the insect as it doesn't have it to love each other before marriage.

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