I like a poet with a sense of humor. Today's winking bard is none other than the brilliant--and wry--John Donne.
Donne belonged to an age when poetry was not always somber and earnest, as it often was with, say, Keats and Poe a few centuries later.
Donne's humor can be seen in some of his best-known poems, including our subject for today, "The Flea."
