Question

Instructions:Select the correct text in the passage.

Answer 1

And in this flea our bloods mingled be....

Answer 2

The corect answers and the lines in this excerpt that suggest the physical union of the lovers in John Donne's "The Flea" are:

And in this flea our two bloods mingled be; Thou know'st that this cannot be said - On these lines, the blood mixed in the flea symbolizes the intermingling of bodily fluids during sexual intercourse.

And pampered swells with one blood made of two; And this, alas, is more than we would do - this fragment tells us that the actual intercourse has not taken place, and the poetic voice is trying to convince his lover that since their blood - symbolizing physical union - has already mixed in the flea, there would be no dishonour in engaging in their actual physical union.