Date of Award
Fall 12-4-2023
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Department
English
First Advisor
Maggie Greaves Ozgur
Second Advisor
Susannah Mintz
Abstract
The poetry born from the confessional and metaphysical genres together act as a poetic anthology of privacy and submission. This anthology holds poems that powerfully engage with the various gendered experiences of submission and the forfeiture of privacy and agency; while these acts are exalted in their masculine contexts, framed as willful abandons of control that empower the poet spiritually and sexually, in feminine contexts, surrender was never a choice, rather an involuntary and penetrative violation of privacy and bodily autonomy.
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Recommended Citation
Keefe, Aoife, "Gendered Submission and the Poetics of Privacy: Devotional and Domestic Poetry of the 17th and 20th Centuries" (2023). English Honors Theses. 72.
https://creativematter.skidmore.edu/eng_stu_schol/72
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