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A Feminist and Critical Analysis of Donne S Poetry The Flea and Woman S Constancy PDF
A Feminist and Critical Analysis of Donne S Poetry The Flea and Woman S Constancy PDF
Supervisor
Dr. Akbar Sajid
In Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree
of Master of English
By
Farrukh Iqbal
December, 2014
The research comprises post-structuralist techniques to find out social and cultural
how John Donne has portrayed the marginalization of women in “The Flea” and
viewpoint regarding their patriarchal viewpoint. The literary textual research further
is designed at determining the common reasons of feminism and the needs of women
to obtain freedom regarding the social and cultural viewpoint of the females at the
limits.
The aim of the existing research is to explain and make clear the techniques Donne
has designed and represented the marginalized women in their poetry from a
gender changes, gender inequality and gender oppression; hence, the women in “The
feminist perspective.
Donne has proven amazing skills in illustrating the numbers and developing a well-
knitted strategy. They are generally a feminist and were one of very few men in the
Renaissance era, who dared to increase the words against social and cultural
Donne’s “The Flea” and “Woman's Constancy” has a good spot in contemporary
feminist literary works even in the literature. Feminist poet is involved with both
patriarchal cultures, through providing words to the women at the edges. Main to the
or society.
1.3 PURPOSE OF RESEARCH
“The Flea” and “Woman's Constancy” are the center of attention of analysis. The
The analysis focuses on the critical study of poetry of “The Flea” and “Woman's
Constancy”. The analysis does not include the other texts of John Donne.
The analysis has used the theoretical frameworks advocated by Abrams, Woolf,
Elaine Showalter, Cameron, Deborah Tennon, Dale Spender, Friedan, Kate Miller,
Bell Hooks, Mary Wollstonecraft, Sara Mills, Walter Nash etc. whose feminist
construct. The complexity of the age is reflected in the written literature of John
Donne.
1.6 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
The analysis pursues descriptive approach and an illustrative strategy, and its
results are based on an in-depth critical and literary feminist analysis of the poems
“The Flea” and “Woman's Constancy”. Since poems have been published with a
highly effective feminist perspective hence, some components of this placement have
1. How John Donne represent the oppression of male dominance towards women
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