Postcolonial Feminist Theory: An Overview - Igcollege.org

Proceedings of National Seminar on Postmodern Literary Theory and Literature , Jan. 27-28, 2012, Nandedfeminist founder of a women’s Organization ‘dedicated to’ all the girls who.....resented, being excluded, as women, from National Organization’. And she can befound every where in Yeats life, spilling over into his word and into his works.His work is uniformly good. He writes on such subjects as an ancientlegends, love, folklore, politics, history, Female plays major role in his poems. Herights with perfect ease and mastery of themes taken from every possible sphere oflive.These tumultuous political times along with strong feminist women withwhom Yeats associated with, created a unique philosophy, one which he wouldstruggle with his entire writing career. Yeats believed that the masculine andfeminine created the foundation on which all other types and forms of oppositionsare generated. His poetry reflects that for the sake of his destiny in his life andmoral purification in the next, the poet must allow the feminine free and formativeplay in his life and psyche. But a gender cannot survive without the other. Both areneeded in order to create harmony and unity of being.His later poetry is mostly impacted by feminism so it is characterized bynaked realism, much brutality and coarseness, and by masculine vigor and force.W. B. Yeats ‘Adam’s curse’ appeared in the Monthly Review of December 1902,and in 1903. The poem has an autobiographical touch. It was written for MaudGonne. The relationship between woman and man is the core of existence.Whenever this relationship in harmonious and firmly rooted in live, there isflowering of life. But, often we see friction in this relationship. It brings miseryand ruin in life. The following lines refer :Half drew she him Half sank he downAnd nevermore was seen.The derogatory aspect of woman-man relationship is the presence of vices likedoubt, deceit and betrayal. Women often plays the role in the drama of life. If weturn the pages of old Testament of the Bible, we will find the story of Adam andEve. God had placed the first man, Adam and first woman Eve in the garden ofEdan, a place of perpetual bliss. Eve had been created to provide company toAdam because he felt lonely as a solitary creature.Yeats speaks of the three parallel labours in the poem. These are the Poet’s,the beautiful woman’s, and Lovers. It is precisely parallel to the women’slaboriously achievement of beauty. These lines are :And thereupon that beautiful mild woman353 PLTL-2012: ISBN 978-81-920120-0-1