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The purpose of this study is to examine the women in Keats's narrative poems, The Eve of St. Agnes, Lamia and Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil. Madeline in St. Agnes is a beautiful woman who wanted to meet her unknown lover in her dream on St. Agnes Eve. After having lurked in the closet and observed her undressing, he approached to her with his stratagem of love when she fell asleep. Madeline was so ignorant that she could not but think that her wish came true and she accepted his erotic passion as true love. But she was merely an object of Porphyro's egoistic erotic love. After their sexual union they escaped into storm which symbolized their reality. In Lamia, Lamia was a brilliant colored snake transformed to a beautiful woman with help of Hermes whom she told where his beloved nymph was. When Lycius met Lamia he fell in love with her as she intended to make him do so. Apollonius, who was a very old intellectual philosopher, came to their wedding uninvited and recognized Lamia's secret. With a word, “Snake”, from his mouth, Lamia was dead and evaporated. Lycius died too, on that evening. The passionate union of Lamia and Lycius was destroyed before Apollonius who was representative of reason. Isabella in Isabella loved Lorenzo who was a servant for her wealthy brothers' trade. Her two brothers lured Lorenzo into the forest and had him killed and buried there. As his death he appeared Isabella's fantasy, she could recover his head and mouldered it in the pot and planted Basil in it. She always watered the pot with her tears. When her brothers took the pot away she wandered to look for it and died mourning the pot. Isabella's life was so entirely depended on the existence of Lorenzo that it was marginalized after his death. As Helene Cixous has defined femininity as lack, negativity, absence of meaning, irrationality, chaos, darkness--in short non-being, we can see the typical examples of women who belong to that category. These three women victimized for their love, and in Madeline's case, for the erotic love. In the 19th century, love was everything for women while it was separated from men's life as Byron demonstrated in Don Juan.

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• 정병화 [ Jeong, Byeong-Hwa | 전북대 ]

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간행물

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학연구 [Studies on English Language & Literature]

• 간기

  계간

• pISSN

  1226-8682

• 수록기간

  1972~2020

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 820