{"id":377,"date":"2017-04-17T09:55:25","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T13:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/?p=377"},"modified":"2017-04-17T09:55:25","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T13:55:25","slug":"phillipss-indebtedness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/romancing-the-sonnet\/phillipss-indebtedness\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillips&#8217;s &#8220;Indebtedness&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Traub notes, &#8220;critics have also demonstrated Phillips&#8217;s indebtedness to a discourse of male\u00a0<em>amicitia<\/em>, to the genre of pastoral, and to the conventions of heterosexual love poetry, particularly the metaphysical conceits of John Donne&#8221; (248-49). I read Phillips&#8217;s poems before Traub&#8217;s essay, and immediately noticed\u00a0her adherence to the ideas of John Donne&#8217;s &#8220;The Ecstasy.&#8221; She speaks of &#8220;our twin souls in one shall grow&#8221; (49) and &#8220;That if each would resume their own&#8230;That each is in the union lost&#8221; (15, 18). While Traub claims that Phillips&#8217;s poetry exhibits chaste female-female friendship, I would question that claim given the similarities to Donne&#8217;s philosophical ideas and alternative lens of sexual climax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traub notes, &#8220;critics have also demonstrated Phillips&#8217;s indebtedness to a discourse of male\u00a0amicitia, to the genre of pastoral, and to the conventions of heterosexual love poetry, particularly the metaphysical conceits of John Donne&#8221; (248-49). I read Phillips&#8217;s poems before Traub&#8217;s essay, and immediately noticed\u00a0her adherence to the ideas of John Donne&#8217;s &#8220;The Ecstasy.&#8221; She speaks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":414,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-romancing-the-sonnet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/414"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}