Dickinson’s Ear
This essay pursues the reference to and role of hearing in Emily Dickinson’s poetry. To do so, it studies the 45 Dickinson poems with the singular noun Ear, in its transferred sense as a figure of aural perception. Reading these poems as a set lets us build a model of Dickinson’s Ear, and the model...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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European Association for American Studies
2017-08-01
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| Series: | European Journal of American Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/12024 |
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| Summary: | This essay pursues the reference to and role of hearing in Emily Dickinson’s poetry. To do so, it studies the 45 Dickinson poems with the singular noun Ear, in its transferred sense as a figure of aural perception. Reading these poems as a set lets us build a model of Dickinson’s Ear, and the model illuminates the interiorizing motion and the signature resonance in her poetic of hearing. The essay develops the model and the poetic in explication of the poems with Ear, and in its last section conceives the Dickinson auditorium, a space for hearing the sounds in her poetry. As it unfolds, the essay takes the measure of Dickinson’s aural senses of the world and of language, as they arise in poems evoking a wide range of experience. |
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| ISSN: | 1991-9336 |