Word, Birth, and Culture: The Poetry of Poe, Whitman, and DickinsonBloomsbury Academic, 2002 M04 30 - 184 pages Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson form an engaging triad of poets who, considered together, enrich the poetics of each other; the works of the three poets address language, birth, and scientific aspects of culture in ways that frame new perceptions of sex roles. Exacerbating 19th-century American expectations for sexually-constructed experience, they employ tactics that disrupt patriarchal signification. The first book to group these three poets together, this volume examines the daring language experiments in which they engage. It explores their use of pseduoscientific and scientific studies of alchemy, hydropathy, and botany to inform their understanding of language and birth and to discover expressions that challenge expectations for 19th-century poetry. |
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... Song of Myself " encodes a process of gestation , the clues intercalated " furtively " into Whitman's long lines : the need for items to pass " through " the speaker , the “ spread " of his body that the speaker notes along with the ...
... song . In the 1860 version of the poem , Whitman adds the lines , “ Elemental drifts ! / O I wish I could impress others as you and the waves have just been im- pressing me " ( Whitman , Collected Writings 318 ) . The pun contained in ...
... song of the demon or bird . He claims the hissing of the sea , Which I do not forget , But fuse the song of my dusky demon and brother , That he sang to me in the moonlight on Paumanok's gray beach , With the thousand responsive songs ...
Contents
Poes The Raven and Gestative Signification | 11 |
Whitmans Song of Myself and Gestative Signification | 31 |
Dickinsons Fascicle TwentyEight and Gestative Signification | 45 |
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Word, Birth, and Culture: The Poetry of Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson Daneen Wardrop No preview available - 2002 |