QUESTIONS ON “THE FLEA”

1) Who is the speaker?







2) Whom is the speaker addressing?







3) What has prompted the speech?







4) What is the speaker's objective?







5) What happens in the poem? Consider here what's happened before the speaker begins, and between the first and second and second and third stanzas.







6) Consider also the flea--what does the speaker make it out to be in stanza two, and how does this differ from stanzas one and three?