Gender Identity In Romantic Poetry

Introduction
Many characteristics have been mentioned to clearly view the Romantic ideology, not to mention, the Romantic poets as well. Even though many critics have failed to precisely define “Romanticism,” they all came to a conclusion from all the Romantic poets’ themes in their poems which is that they all celebrate nature, whether by using their sense of nostalgia; or using vision of dreams. Even their opposition against political movements and monarchies was linked to nature from their way of using symbols and images of nature.

On the whole, Romanticism is not limited to only the characteristics and major poets. It is worth mentioning that the gender of the poets plays a major role in the Romantic era due to the fact that female

As identity becomes increasingly unstable in male poetry, the success of feminist interrogation becomes evident to the point that the gendered basis for the recovery of women writers as anything but an invention of the present unwound.

This argument is taken to another stage, offering a reading of Barbauld which proposes that it is time to read women poets a new, to learn to read them outside the restrictively gendered and very conventional terms that have tended to structure both sides debates.

This research will present an explanation of the important relationship between gender issues and gender choice in the work of the (uncanorical) female poets of the Romantic period, for Romanticism is taken to the point where all critical paradigms and (cosy) oppositions are scrutinized with an eye to the need of seriously rethinking them.

Anna Letitia Barbauld
(1743-

She was the oldest child and only daughter of Jane Jennings and John Aikin, a dissenting clergyman and teacher. Shortly after her marriage, John Aikin had given up his pulpit for health reasons. Instead, he taught school and instructed Anna Letitia and her brother, John, four years her junior. She would learn French, Italian, and, despite her father’s misgivings, Latin and Greek. Anna was praised by her parents for her remarkable intellect; her mother claimed that at the age of twenty months Anna could already read quite well. By the age of six, Anna had mastered all the language that she had been taught. When she was old enough, her parents allowed her to pursue a classical education at Warrington Academy, where her father was a tutor. In addition to learning Greek and Latin, Anna also developed a great love for poetry and spent much time writing. She had many of her poems and prose printed at the Warrington Press, alongside the writings of John Howard, Thomas Roscoe, and Dr. Jerriez. Anna developed deep and lifelong friendships with Joseph Priestly, a scientist and religious philosopher, and his wife Mary.

Anna Letitia’s mother was a cultivated, strict, neat, and punctual woman with polished manners. She and her daughter never had a congenial relationship, and Anna struggled against the tight rein her puritanical parents imposed. Because she was brought up