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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... repetition , which informs our initial contact with “ The Raven " and is perhaps even the first thing we notice . Such an attention Poe would have welcomed . The narrator's desire à la lettre starts in a place before desire , and Poe ...
... repetition , ” a remark that refers to the use of the refrain but could be addressing any of the poem's repetitions . Poe goes on to explain that he chooses first sound and then word : " The sound of the refrain being thus determined ...
... repetition , the second third introduces , with " Nevermore , " the inchoate articulation of syllables that predict entry into the symbolic mode . The sonority of the word dampens the chattering repeti- tions that precede it , and Poe ...
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 |