LEYDİ MARY WROTH’UN PAMPHILIA TO AMPHILANTUS ADLI ESERİNDE BİR KADIN ŞAİRİN PORTRESİ

Year 2023, , 332 - 356, 20.06.2023

Hande Seber

https://doi.org/10.33171/dtcfjournal.2023.63.1.13

Abstract

Leydi Mary Wroth, Erken Modern Döneme damgasını vurmuş önemli bir yazardır. Ürettikleri önemli edebi eserler ile tanınan Sidney ailesinin fertlerinden biridir. Wroth’un Pamphilia to Amphilanthus başlıklı eseri “bir İngiliz kadın tarafından yazılan ilk sone dizisi” (Roberts, 1982, s. 43) olması nedeniyle sone geleneğinde ve erken modern dönem kadın yazınında oldukça önemli yere sahiptir. Erkeğin şair, kadınınsa idealize edilen kişi olarak rol aldığı, karşılıksız aşk ve tutkunun kalıplaşmış ifadelerle sunulduğu Petrarka şiir geleneğinde kadının alışılmamış bir role bürünerek şair olarak ortaya çıkması oldukça güçtü. Bu makale, bir kadın şairin sone geleneğini kendi özgün tarzıyla nasıl yorumladığını ve şekillendirdiğini görmek üzere Pamphilia to Amphilanthus adlı eseri incelemeyi amaçlamaktadır. Wroth’un şair olarak kendisini ve alışılagelmişin dışında özelliklerle şekillendirdiği şiir kişisini dönemin şiir geleneğine nasıl yerleştirdiği tartışmanın ana noktasını oluşturacaktır. Bu bağlamda, eserde Pamphilia’nın temsili üzerinde önemle durulacaktır. Deneyimlerini ve üzüntünün neden olduğu yıkıcı sonuçları dile getiren, çoğu kez de aşkın doğasını sorgulayan sesi ile var olan bir kadındır Pamphilia. O, başka bir şairin eserindeki sessiz obje olmaktan öte, kendi şiirlerini yazan, edebiyat yazınında kadının yazar konumda da olabileceğini gösteren bir figür olarak yansıtılır. Tüm bunlara ek olarak, çalışmada Wroth’un edebi tür seçimi, bunu nasıl kullandığı ve değiştirdiği, şiir kişisinine verdiği roller, eserdeki ana temalar ve bir kadın şair olarak edebi eserler üretmek hakkındaki görüşleri de ayrıntılı olarak ele alınacaktır.

Keywords

Lady Mary Wroth, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, sone dizisi, erken modern dönem, kadın şair

THE PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN POET IN LADY MARY WROTH’S PAMPHILIA TO AMPHILANTUS

Abstract

Lady Mary Wroth is considered to be one of the most prominent women writers of the Early Modern Period. She comes from the Sidney family, the members of which are well-known with their noteworthy literary accomplishments. Wroth’s Pamphilia to Amphilanthus has a significant place among the sonnet sequences and early modern women’s poetry as it is “the first sonnet sequence to be composed by an Englishwomen” (Roberts, 1982, p. 43). The Petrarchan tradition with its determined roles of a male poet and an idealized lady, along with its blazons employed to express the consequences of unfulfilled love and desire can hardy accommodate a woman who comes up with such an unaccustomed role. This article, therefore, aims at a study of Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, as a sonnet sequence to see how a woman poet manages to employ the sonnet tradition in her own way. How Wroth as a woman poet accommodated herself and her persona to the poetic tradition of the time will be the main point of argumentation. It is in this respect that, the focus will be on Pamphilia and how she is represented with a new role. She is depicted as a woman with a voice, talking about her experience and the destructive outcomes of grief, quite often questioning the nature of love. Pamphilia appears not as the silent object of some other poet’s work, but writing her own poems, metaphorically redefining her place in the literary production. Furthermore, Wroth’s choice of genre, how she employed and revised it, the role she assigned to the female speaker, the major themes, along with her ideas on writing as a woman poet will be further elaborated on.

Keywords

Lady Mary Wroth, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, sonnet sequence, early modern period, woman poet

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