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Emily Dickinson: New England Metaphysical Poet
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A contrast of Christina Rossetti and Emily Dickinson,
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1939. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive.
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Revolt and tradition in the thought of Emily Dickinson
… to show two major influences in the thought of Emily Dickinson which contributed greatly to two antithetic doctrines which commanded her loyalty. One of these two was a reverence which she felt for the Puritan concepts of life; the other was a revolutionary trait that would not adhere to Puritan …
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The subjunctive mood in the writings of Emily Dickinson
The subjunctive mood in the poems of Emily Dickinson was from the outset a source of confusion to editors and readers. The first editors thought that these forms, in particular the third person singular verbs which omit the s inflection, were incorrect usages. These editors often ''corrected" them …
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Emily Dickinson: 19th Century Poet in a 21st Century World
… public access to literary content in the case of Emily Dickinson’s poems and letters. The discussion continues with how this was a problem for Dickinson while she was alive due to her reclusiveness and unorthodox punctuation. The capstone then looks at the other aspects of this in the roles that …
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The Romanticism of the Patriarchy versus Poems by Emily Dickinson
<p>Using poems by Emily Dickinson I will disect the closeting of the poet herself, meaning the hidden identity of the author from within her own work. The poems used here reference a writer hiding in plain sight, comparison to womens equality and how women have over centuries hidden their true …
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The Mystical Trends in The Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Annette Von Droste-Huelshoff
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Madness as metaphor : a study of mysticism in the life and art of Emily Dickinson
… importance of mysticism in the art and life of Emily Dickinson, and shows that because of the physiological changes endured by the mystic and the unique relationship between mysticism and madness, what might be read literally as madness (psychosis) in Dickinson's poems should be seen as a …
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Freedom in Existence: A Comparative Study of the Poetics of Emily Dickinson and Sohrab Sepehri
… imaginative form of communication” (Edman 46). Emily Dickinson and Sohrab Sepehri are two poets who sought to identify and define the Self in their modernist poetic discourse, and they each appropriated language as a means and a stepping-stone towards a methodological and unrestricted method of …
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From Amherst to The Other Side: The Integration of Emily Dickinson into the Italian Consciousness
<p>At the beginning of the twentieth century, Emily Dickinson’s poetry appeared in Italy in two key forms: anthologized alongside other American authors and in select translations by prominent Italian intellectuals including poet Eugenio Montale and writer Emilio Cecchi. Dickinson was both touted …
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Emily Dickinson's feminist response to Scripture as manifested in her poetry and correspondence.
Throughout her life, Emily Dickinson struggled to reconcile her concern for gender with her belief in a patriarchal God and the androcentric (male-centered) Bible. This thesis maintains that Dickinson read against the biblical text (the methodology of today's feminist reader-response theory) to …
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Criterion for tune: identifying "New Englandy" traits of Alice Parker's choral settings of Emily Dickinson poetry
… in Alice Parker’s choral cycles setting Emily Dickinson poems. An extensive literature review helps identify New Englandly traits in poetry. In particular, Christanne Miller’s book, Emily Dickinson: A Poet’s Grammar, provides five ways that Dickinson uses unconventional grammar to achieve …
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Museum-Making in Women's Poetry: How Sylvia Plath and Emily Dickinson Confront the Time of History
… canonical American women poets, Sylvia Plath and Emily Dickinson. In the corpus of each, I find a common mode of operation that attempts to reconcile man's and woman's time, to varying degrees of success. Emily Dickinson uses the language of linear history to stretch its boundaries; she …
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