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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... Summer and the problematic gravid condition of the speaker . The period of growth and abundance occurs outside for Summer while the speaker experi- ences her period of growth inside , in a troubled way . The redder - cheeked flow- ers ...
... Summer endorses a parable of the season progressing from spring to fall but it also depicts the loss of the foetus or embryo.25 Dickinson enlarges upon summer in another poem , outside Fascicle Twenty - Eight , " Summer - we all have ...
... summer . Having already explored in chapter three the feminine themes in the summer poem , “ My first well Day — since , " we turn to other po- ems here ( Fr288 ) . A poem describing a weed of summer distills the multitudi- nous themes of ...
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 |