The speaker strongly implicates that the relationship between himself and his lady love is chaste—that is to say, entirely devoid of sex. But the speaker aims to change all that by persuading his beloved that, since the eponymous flea has bitten both of them and sucked their blood, they should follow his example and mingle their blood together. (This was a common euphemism for sex in Donne's day.)
However, this lustful man has his work cut out. One senses that his beloved has, in accordance with the moral standards of the day, led a fairly sheltered upbringing. Our initial suspicions are confirmed by his reference to how the lady's parents disapprove of their relationship:
Though parents grudge, and you, w'are met,And cloistered in these living walls of jet.
The word "cloistered" is very suggestive here, with its connotations of a monastery or, in this case, a convent. One gets the sense that the speaker's beloved has been confined to her parents' home, shut away from the world for so long that she's totally inexperienced when it comes to the ways of love.
The speaker so desperately wants to remedy that inexperience. However, he's somewhat discouraged and deflated on seeing his would-be lover cruelly squash the little flea with her finger, thus destroying the symbol of what the speaker had hoped would be their imminent sexual union.
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