DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2018.v06i04.012

Pages: 866-869

The 17th century saw the rise of John Donne, the most celebrated metaphysical poets of his age, who broke away from the conventional Petrarchan style of poetry and introduced the concept of ‘metaphysical conceits’ in his poetry. While the poet is highly eulogised for his erotic poems, what readers often fail to realize is that his poems reek of patriarchy and is replete with the recurrent images of commodification of women. His fetishism with the female body is often overlooked and his poems are misinterpreted as lending the female gender a fair chance of being vocal about their sexual urges. However, where is the female voice? This paper seeks to examine John Donne’s poems through a feminist perspective and thus, provide a new insight into some of his carefully curated poems.