Hi Emma,

I am also interested in the issue you brought up about how sexuality configures into the master/servant relationship. Based on the Holy Sonnets that we read and the ones you brought up, as well as some of the other texts we have read where this conceit is used, I believe that subordination is put into the language of the feminine and the domination into the language of the masculine. Even when the subordinated person is actually a man, the ideas used to describe the individual in their subordination seem particularly feminized.