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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... maternal principle whereby a thing exceeds its name . For my purposes , the focus for all three poets remains parturitive , highlighting respites from patriarchal signification that can renew the poem and as such propose a maternal ...
... maternal bias.2 The date , the evening before Mary gives birth to baby Jesus , offers a fit- ting backdrop for a poem that depends not only upon the child but expressly upon the maternal , 3 Whitman revised " A Child's Reminiscence " in ...
... maternal rhythms in its opening : As I walk'd where the ripples continually wash you Paumanok , Where they rustle up hoarse and sibilant , Where the fierce old mother endlessly cries for her castaways ... ( 253 ) The hoarseness and ...
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 |