AN ECOFEMINIST ANALYSIS OF JOHN KEATS SELECTED ODES
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This research explores the representation of an equal association between the subjugation of women and the exploitation of nature by utilizing cultural eco-feminism by Ortner(1972). The aforesaid theory of Ortner (1972) opines that the parallel position of females and nature suffering is the result of patriarchy. In this work, the poems namely Ode to the Nightingale and Ode on a Gracian Urn by Keats are unveiled for the elements of cultural eco-feminism. For this purpose, the qualitative analysis of the poems carried out to expose the equal representation of both nature and women by Keats by using personification at various places. The result depicts that Keats has depicted the dualistic, patriarchal hierarchical culture by giving allusion to the traditional mind set up that subjugated women and oppressed nature. Such elements are frequently found to be used by Keats to maintain the involvement which is between the misuses of nature along with the domination of men over women in his poetry. Resultantly, Keats has juxtaposed nature to history to show how the ecosystem including natural world, ability, birds, and women are dominated and exploited.
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