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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... birth scene of language - Poe figuring the birth through an absent mother , and Whitman figuring the " I " of " Song of Myself " as midwife in a labor he transgresses upon - Dickinson takes the pro- cess one step prior , to a stage before ...
... birth metaphors . The use of tropes of birth constitutes a technique of writers from Homer to the present and , as practiced by patriarchal writers , may well indicate the desire to subjugate to traditionally male activities the female ...
... birth and before birth . The poem with which this chapter commenced , " How many Flowers fail in Wood- , " states the dilemma most succinctly : " How many Cast a nameless Pod / Opon the nearest Breeze— / Unconscious of the Scarlet ...
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 |