부산대학교 도서관

This paper compares Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1850s England and Goh Jung Hee in 1980s Korea, focusing on their writing subjectivities as a woman poet in each different social context. Both consider their act of writing the feminist poems as a social criticism, transforming the patriarchal social system into more humanized social structure. Barrett Browning, by writing Aurora Leigh(1857), created three kinds of female subjectivity: the most self-assertive woman-poet, Aurora's first-person narrative; the raped working-class girl, Marian's breaking verbalization of the forbidden subject; and the disinherited Victorian woman-poet, Barrett Browning's access to the phallocentric genre. Goh Jung Hee, by writing three poems, "An Appeal Made by "Patriotic Women's League" for Donation of Rings"(1987), "Rice and Capitalism: A Woman's Tune Who Gains a Bowl of Rice by Selling Her Body"(1992), and "Let Us Burst Open the Dams"(1987), created Korean women's collective subjectivities by water images based on historical consciousness, reflecting the past and present Korean women's everyday lives. Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Goh Jung Hee accomplished their social responsibilities as a woman poet in each different socio-historical context, illustrating women's access to full subjectivity with female imagination and incisive critique through writing the feminist poems as a social criticism.