This intelligible religious imagery depicts, through the death of the flea, the destruction of a union between two people. ... Donne's use of intricate language allows for the use of wit to breakdown the barriers ordinary language imposes. ... Although it was common for the "poem to partake in the extensive tradition of erotic poems centred on flea's", and was not entirely innovative, it still seems odd that a base insect could be used as ordinary imagery of love. ...

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But concerning to this romantic idea, the big question is to what extent the concept of courtly love is coextensive with the reality of ordinary love relationships at court in the Middle Age and in how far 'courtly love literature' is misinterpreted. ... Paris, 460-481).Accordingly, the term was an invention of the Victorian time and had not existed in the Middle Age, which leads to the assumption that the concept of courtly love "had very little to do with the reality of ordinary romantic relationships "in the Middle Age (Porter, 9). ... This misunderstanding, too, is b...

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But concerning to this romantic idea, the big question is to what extent the concept of courtly love is coextensive with the reality of ordinary love relationships at court in the Middle Age and in how far 'courtly love literature' is misinterpreted. ... Paris, 460-481).Accordingly, the term was an invention of the Victorian time and had not existed in the Middle Age, which leads to the assumption that the concept of courtly love "had very little to do with the reality of ordinary romantic relationships "in the Middle Age (Porter, 9). ... This misunderstanding, too, is b...

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With three texts spanning over four centuries, not only does the style of writing change, but the presentation of relationships becomes arguably more realistic. In terms of love, it is arguable that all three texts; "Hamlet," "Sons and Lovers," and "A Streetcar Named Desire," present it as a destruc...

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