A Feminist Analysis of John Donne's Selected Poems DOCX

Title	A Feminist Analysis of John Donne's Selected Poems
Author	Panchali Mukherjee
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A Feminist Analysis of John Donne’s Selected Poems Name: Dr. Panchali Mukherjee Designation: HoD & Assistant Professor, Department of Languages, T. John College. Mobile Number: 09731077998 E-Mail Id: [email protected] Name: Ms. Anjali P. Perumayan Class/Semester: IVth Semester B. A. (...

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A Feminist Analysis of John Donne's Selected Poems Name: Dr. Panchali Mukherjee Designation: HoD & Assistant Professor, Department of Languages, T. John College. Mobile Number: 09731077998 E-Mail Id: [email protected] Name: Ms. Anjali P. Perumayan Class/Semester: IVth Semester B. A. (JEP) College: T. John College Mobile Number: 8151031433 E-Mail Id: [email protected] Name of the Supervising Teacher: Dr. Panchali Mukherjee Designation: HoD & Assistant Professor, Department of Languages, T. John College. Mobile Number: 09731077998 E-Mail Id: [email protected] Abstract John Donne (1572-1631) the father of metaphysical poetry, a prominent figure in the history of English Literature, who brought together the opposites and even his works were a breakaway from the tradition. The way women were represented in his elegies, poems etcetera is an aspect that needs explanation. Living in the Jacobean Age, Donne wrote love poems and elegies addressed to his lady love, patrons and mistresses. He went on to describe them as objects of pleasure or beauty and as a gender that was subjected to many emotional turbulences due to their position in a patriarchal society. The women in Donne's poetry are weak, cunning and very submissive. The poems such as "The Sunne Rising", "The Flea", "Go and Catch a Falling Star", "Elegy: On His Mistress" and "Elegy: To His Mistress Going to Bed" are examples where women are represented in the abovementioned manner. To study this representation of women by the poet theories of feminism and male gaze were applied on the poems. The feminist critical theory says how women were portrayed as objects whose intellectual and reasoning powers are not acknowledged at all leading to the objectification and the commodification of women. Even in his love poems the female character has no voice of her own rather the male character identifies her by her appearance and beauty. The research paper attempts to deconstruct the binary oppositions that are applied to gender differences and women are always seen on the negative side of it....