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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... child's mother both interpreted as his attempt to say the German word " fort , " which means " gone . " Once he pulled the spool back to himself he would happily pronounce , “ da , ” German for " here . " Freud reports that " [ t ] his ...
... child . “ The Assignation " begins with a description of a drowning child , and continues with descriptions of the actions of others attempting to rescue the child , during which a figure sits in the shadows , seemingly unconcerned ...
... Child's Reminiscence " because Whitman thought the poem's themes would be shown to best effect by a Christmas debut ... child but expressly upon the maternal , 3 Whitman revised " A Child's Reminiscence " in 1860 and retitled it “ A Word ...
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 |