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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... gestation has gone largely unnoticed . Specifically , Dickinson is more than a great poet of death ; she is also a poet of language after death and commensurately , a poet of lan- guage before birth . Of course both are impossible , but ...
... gestation with the “ nameless pod " of Fascicle Twenty - Eight . Dickinson wrote of gestation not carried to full term ; the pregnancies in her poems may have resulted in miscarriage or abortion.2 I would like to stress that I discuss ...
... gestation . The poem's last lines describe the pro- cess by which Christ chooses maturity : By Blossoms + gradual process— He Chose - Maturity- And + quickening - as we sowed- Just obviated Bud- And when We turned to note the Growth ...
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 |