Rendering over W. B. Yeats’ Selected Poems from Feminist Perspective
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This research article focuses on W. B. Yeats' poetry from the feminist perspective taking the ideas of Simone De Beauvoir and Elaine Showalter. This paper observes that W. B. Yeats has supported women issues in his poetry. His poetry presents the women‘s pathetic condition in patriarchal society and sometimes his poetry gives rebellious character to the women. Despite being a male, Yeats has able to suspend male ego in many of his poem. He believes that for the better world men and women should have equality. In this research paper I have selected W.B Yeats' poems entitled "The Living Beauty", "A Prayer for My Daughter", "Leda and the Swan", "The lady's First Song", "The Heart of the Women", "That Crazy Girl", "The Lover Mourns for the Loss of Love" and “Crazy Jane Talks with Bishop" to analyze with feminist perspective . In the selected poems, Yeats raises the voice of women who are suppressed by patriarchy. As a qualitative research, this researcher has purposively selected the poems of W. B Yeats and analyzed them by applying feminism as a tool.
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