Felicia Hemans’ Strengthened Domesticity as a Patriotic Piety
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In The Domestic Affections and Other Poems, Hemans elucidates that womanly virtue resides in purity, domesticity and piety. She refined and promoted the feminine themes and subject matters which were important to develop a woman’s role serving as a response to the social climate of that day. The social participation of women was extremely restricted. In an era when woman’s subordination to man was regarded as natural, female literary participation could not help being a sphere of writing restricted only to female writers. In her proper sphere, her home, Hemans’ language of sense was totally relied upon the auditory sense and auditory images at first. Her empirical self cannot but be limited in her own sphere. She, however, aspires to expand her poetic realms. So she invokes the poetic muse to help her possess the insight, an inward eye. The inward eye keeps her introspection profound. Constructing her own literary true sphere, her domestic affections fortifies her true womanhood. Especially, her domestic affections are expanded to the extent of love for her motherland, Britain, which is as good as the expanded sphere of her own home. As she feels grief in her patriotic mind, however, she relies upon the religion. Through piety, she builds up her mental fortitude in the times of strife for women.
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In The Domestic Affections and Other Poems, Hemans elucidates that womanly virtue resides in purity, domesticity and piety. She refined and promoted the feminine themes and subject matters which were important to develop a woman’s role serving as a response to the social climate of that day. The social participation of women was extremely restricted. In an era when woman’s subordination to man was regarded as natural, female literary participation could not help being a sphere of writing restricted only to female writers. In her proper sphere, her home, Hemans’ language of sense was totally relied upon the auditory sense and auditory images at first. Her empirical self cannot but be limited in her own sphere. She, however, aspires to expand her poetic realms. So she invokes the poetic muse to help her possess the insight, an inward eye. The inward eye keeps her introspection profound. Constructing her own literary true sphere, her domestic affections fortifies her true womanhood. Especially, her domestic affections are expanded to the extent of love for her motherland, Britain, which is as good as the expanded sphere of her own home. As she feels grief in her patriotic mind, however, she relies upon the religion. Through piety, she builds up her mental fortitude in the times of strife for women.
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