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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... describes the raven's " mien " as that of either " lord or lady " ( 365 , 366 ) . As the middle section progresses , gender begins to solidify as the narrator intermittently refers to the raven as " he " and " it . " Interestingly , ac ...
... describes it as " an invisible and formless being which receives all things and in some mysteri- ous way partakes of the intelligible , and is most incomprehensible ” ( Desire 6 ) . Partaking of the intelligible and yet remaining ...
... describes his own conception ( 29 ) . In another 1855 poem , “ I Sing the Body Electric , " Whitman specifically names this fluid as the " diffused float . " He asks , “ Do you think matter has cohered together from its diffused float ...
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 |