Romantic Love and Female Subjectivity in Carol Ann Duffys poetry: A Feminist Reading

This paper examines romantic love and construction of female subjectivity in Carol Ann Duffy’s selected poems from her main poetry collections based on chronological order. Duffy is the first female poet to become the poet laureate of the Great Britain and since the notion of love is one of the most important themes in her poetry, her poems contain the aspects of feminism and female experiences. Hence the construction of female subjectivity is significant as it is constructed by love in Duffy’s poetry. This essay illustrates concept of love that influence construction of the female subjectivity in its romantic form; since this paper applies a feminist reading in order to investigating the role of romantic love through the feminist perspective in the poems; the presentation of loving relationships differs in each of her poems in relation to female subjectivity and romantic concept of love. The paper also examines the women oppression and different kinds of loving relationships.