Dier, Dean2016-10-132016-10-132015-09https://hdl.handle.net/1794/2027259 pages. A thesis presented to the Department of English and the Clark Honors College of the University of Oregon in partial fulfillment of the requirements for degree of Bachelor of Arts, Fall 2015.In this paper, I utilize an experimental format of incorporating autobiographical narratives of my life as a genderqueer person to segue readers into questions of identity and trans* theory. I then use the tenets of trans* theory to analyze several poems by John Donne, Andrew Marvell, and Richard Crashaw. I expect trans* theory to help shape our collective understanding of gender and selfhood when utilized beyond the reach of this paper and incorporated into the analysis of a multitude of different literary genres. iien-USCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-USGenderTheoryMetaphysical PoetryJohn DonneRichard CrashawAndrew MarvellSexThesis / Dissertation