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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... speaker of Poe's poems of women . No sooner does Poe's speaker love than he witnesses the demise of the be- loved , only to repeat the pattern in another poem with another woman , who is also part corpse , part woman . Poe represents ...
... speaker who lies , Poe creates he who can authorize his own relationship with intersubjectivity . With the use of lying the poet tries to eject the silence , though the coming to voice may prove limited , often limited to the one ...
The Poetry of Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson Daneen Wardrop. The speaker would wish for the father character to preempt the mother func- tion , in a moment of desperate action , but he cannot bring the moment to its peak . The speaker holds ...
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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