Word, Birth, and Culture: The Poetry of Poe, Whitman, and DickinsonBloomsbury Academic, 2002 M04 30 - 169 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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... things , They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it , They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon ... ( 647-49 ) Births have brought us richness and variety , And other births will bring us richness and variety ...
... things to claim , indicate the waves of rhythm fun- damental to the making of poetry , and they derive from the mother function . The mother function , that comes up “ out of the fathomless workings " ( 65 ) is the stuff of the body ...
... thing , for in such a meeting one meets a thing that is uncon- trollable . Dickinson tries to describe states of fevered joy so uncontrollable that one may not label or report them ; they are , specifically , “ In many and reportless ...
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 |