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The purpose of this paper is to examine John Donne's poems through feminism. A few suspicions might be raised when a feminst reading of Donne's poems is suggested, since he has not known as a feminst poet at all. John Donne wrote his poems in the period when feminism had not been imagined by most people in the traditional patriarchal and phallocentric ideology. In this period, the physical beauty was the best virtue of a woman. But being different from the convention, the description of a woman's physical beauty is hardly found in Donne's love poems. For him beauty of natural world is of little estimation as it is simply a thing that happened by chance. Rather the psychological emotion or inner experience were described exactly in the place of a woman's body. Donne seems to recognize the fact that a woman is more than a sexual partner in the relation with a man. In some of his poems a woman's influence upon a man is so great as if to infer that a man's existence is dependent on his lover just as solar energy on the moon. As a matter of fact, Donne compared the sun to a woman, the moon to a man. But in other poems he revealed the patriarchal inclination toward the women who turned their back from the lovers. This kind of contradictory attitude towards a woman appears in Donne's poems. A feminist reading of Donne can achieve two things at least. Firstly, we can trace the historical procedure in which women were oppressed by patriarchal ideology. Secondly, a feminist reading may provide and contribute toward an extension of interpreting the text from another perspective.

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• 정병화 [ Jeong Byeong Hwa | 전북대 ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학연구 [Studies on English Language & Literature]

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  계간

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  1226-8682

• 수록기간

  1972~2020

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 820