Um olhar sobre o feminino na poesia erótica de John Donne

Abstract

The objective of this research is to present a critical study on how the feminine representations happens in the erotic poems of John Donne (15721631), believing thus allow a better view of how the female was seen by English society of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries by the analysis of the poems and their representations. The objectives are directed from the critical reading and interpretative analysis of the poems, both concerning understanding of social historical aspects as the identification of feminine places with regard its manifestations in Donneana poetry. In this sense, this research, bibliographic, analytical and interpretative character, is justified in the importance that is given to contextualization of the place and the feminine space in a society of a time of changes and social upheavals (end of the Renaissance, Middle Ages and religious reformulation). With the core studies on the place of women in Western society as well as direct their analysis to the study of erotic poems, since the feminine representations have most striking features in this space, considering all the work poetry of Donne. For this, the research was theoretical guidance, primarily, critical studies of Campus (1988), Eliot (1941), Erickson (2010), on issues surrounding the poetic Donneana; Bataille (1988) and Beauvoir (1980), the questions about the eroticism and sexuality; Grolli (2004) and Macedo (2002), about the women and their place in space.