About the Author

Cheng-Fen Chen(陳正芬) was born in Taichung, Taiwan. Chen received some awards for writing articles at the school stage. She graduated from National Tsing Hua University with a Master of Arts degree in English and American Literature. She likes to listen to a variety of music and has achieved some musical performances with her band. Also, she participated in several dressing and styling competitions and won the championship. In her earlier working experiences, she was a digital columnist, writing for interior design columnist, a music magazine, other business, etc. Now she is a language advisor and an English teacher, teaching English and working as a consultant in some technology industries.

Special awards

Emily Chen attended the classes in the National Touring Arts Camp in Taiwan and while there, got the creative writing prize for her poetry. And she joined a music video production event, which was organized for promoting a concert by the famous Hong Kong singer Khalil Fong. She has both acted in and been a screenwriter for a music video. She also did the songwriting. And the video work won the selected creation. Set Love Free talks about female sexuality as subversive agency in Lord Byron’s Don Juan. What Byron would like to show in Don Juan is the exploration of human feelings, especially human passions and the nature of love. Set Love Free also features seven different poems written by Cheng-Fen Chen. These are all true feelings from Love. Believe your emotions and enjoy the lovely ride.

Cheng-Fen Chen (Emily Chen) is a poet and a writer coming from Taiwan. The poet Emily writes her poems with a sincere mind and special imagination. The literature of Romanticism, including that of Lord Byron, has been a major influence on her writing. Set Love Free is Taiwan’s first book that presents a unique, engaging perspective on Byron’s masterpiece as well as collecting Emily Chen’s own poetic works in English—even with wild sublime as resonant languages. the tranquil time,
The appearance of poem was taking shape.


Love, Abject, and Romantic


Poem / by Cheng-Fen Chen

When I met you in the tranquil time,
The appearance of poem was taking shape.

Your name, I have not asked in person,

is just the third poem of mine. Contents

Preface

Chapter One 　Introduction
　General Introduction
　Women and Erotic Love
　Critical Review

Chapter Two 　Female Erotics
　Introduction
　Female Sexuality and Sexual Pleasure
　The Reversal of Gender Role

Chapter Three 　Female Identity
　Introduction
　Stranger, Speed and Space
　Women-Juan Relationships: Chora and Abject
　The Recognition of Female Identity

Chapter Four 　Conclusion

Works Cited

Acknowledgement