In most of John Donne's poetry we see that the main aspect is love, whether it be in a cynical context, the feeling that John Donne himself is experiencing the pleasant sensation of love or he is talking about the act of love in a sexual perspective. From this we can see that love Poems are a way of expressing sexual or loving feelings through words. Love poems are almost always romantic but as we will see, this is not the case for all of them; I will show this in two of his poems, 'The Flea' and 'The Sun Rising'.
             In 'The Flea' the main aspect of the poem as we can see is Donne trying to seduce a girl into having sexual intercourse with him but it is not his aim which makes this poem stand out, it is the manner in which he tries to seduce the girl and the way that you can tell his audience is actually the girl that he is trying to have intercourse with. He uses the idea if a flea in many ways to try and persuade the girl that doing what he is proposing to do is not a bad thing. Also the way he presents the tone is quite rare as it is an argument which is trying to persuade the girl. For example he begins with stating that he is being denied or rejected and then uses the flea as an intervention,
             'How little that which thou deny'st me is;
             Me it sucked first, and now sucks thee...our two bloods mingled be'
             From this we see how Donne conveys a scientific perspective yet he could merely be doing this to impress the girl although this interlocks with his goal. Basically Donne is trying to say that he knows why the girl is afraid of doing this what he is proposing yet if a flea has already mixed there bodily fluids without their consent then what would be the crime in them mixing more bodily fluids with each others consent. The first stanza in which this is stated represents a lot of sexual innocence and also the humour of it considering Donne is trying to get a girl to have i
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