No one can deny Andrew Marvell¡s ¡§To His Coy Mistress¡ and John Donne¡s ¡§The Flea¡ are two beautiful carpe diem poetries using many creative metaphors, personifications and vivid imagery. Despite both poems have the same underlying meaning of making merry while one can, their methods of persuasion are different. In the two poems, both of the speakers are trying to persuade a lady to give out her virginity because of limited time and life. Even though Donne uses the metaphysical conceit of a flea to convince the target to overcome her moral concept, it is Marvell¡s series of persuasive techniques, seeming commitment followed by death frightening and passion, generates a much more powerful conviction that can touch the target¡s innermost world to achieve his goal. The most persuasive argument is commitment, a series of beautiful words, which confides the target.
             In ¡§The Flea,¡ the speaker tries to create an argument by comparing lovemaking to fleabite to show that their sexual intercourse is similar to an irrelevant and little fleabite. Starting from the first two lines, the speaker illustrates ¡§how little¡ the size of the flea is and the flea has already bite the woman. Afterwards, the speaker compares their intercourse and mingling of blood as the same physical action in the flea. He says, ¡§It sucked me first, and now sucks thee¡ (3). This creates an argument that the lady should not refuse his desire since that she let the flea to bite her. The lady has lost her virginity inside the flea when ¡§two bloods mingled,¡ so that they have already merged together. In another way of saying it, there is no harm to have sex with the speaker. He continues his arguments by saying, ¡§A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead¡ (6). He emphasizes that the fleabite is so natural and simple that she will not loss her honor or purity. This implies that having sexual intercourse is very ord...