Abstract

MARGARET FULLERS EARLY POETRY- REFLECTION OF CULTURAL FEMINISM

Samaher Saeed Assi, Asst. Prof. Amal Nassar Fraq

Volume: 10 Issue: 1 2020

Abstract:

This paper sheds light on Margaret Fuller's poems written in the early period. Margaret Fuller (1810-40) is one of the ground-breaking feminists that struggled for women's rights in the United States in the nineteenth century. Fuller's early poetry has the seeds of cultural feminism which aims at empowering women and treating them as distinctive individuals. Fuller —as a feminist poet in the early period—concentrates on these important principles of cultural feminism. Most importantly, she puts emphasis on the characteristics of women's potentials which sometimes surpass men's; in other words, Fuller's feminist thought asserts the concept of matriarchy through her poems to her friend Anna Barker and some other poems that deal with gender, using certain language and symbolism.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.37648/ijrssh.v10i01.006

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