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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... Perhaps modern scorn partly can be traced to an overstrong focus on the math- ematician in Poe , the algebraic poet in " The Philosophy of Composition " who dryly proffers the metrical scaffolding of " The Raven , " as if a computer had ...
... Perhaps the command to “ stay there— ” forms a directive that only a woman poet would give - and especially a woman poet operating from the speaking - position of gestation . She thus places herself on the side of uncertainty ...
... perhaps it is not even a word ; perhaps it is preverbal babble , perhaps postverbal babble . The syllable the dying speak may be the word " tea , " which could follow as a syntactical consequence in the poem . “ Tea , ” fur- ther ...
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 |