... flea that has just bitten the speaker and his beloved to sketch an amusing conflict over whether the two will engage in premarital sex. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning is one if Donne's most famous and also probably his most direct statement of his ideal of spiritual love. For all his erotic sensuality in poems, such as The Flea, Donne professes a devotion to a kind of spiritual love that transcended the merely physical, which this poem portrays. Donne anticipates a physical separation from his beloved and it describes a way of looking at their parting that will help them to avoid the mourning forbidden by the poem's title. The Flea is directed at an unwilling woman who refuses to yield to the lover's desires. Interaction between the subject of the argument in the poem and the speaker does occur, although she does not actually have a spoken voice in the ...

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