Emily Dickinson's Typic Mother From Personal Relationship To Spiritual Metaphor

In her poetry Emily Dickinson portrays the female role in a unique way. Her mother images, in particular, reverse the accepted cultural norms and expand the mother into a heroic, even god-like figure. With the help of the existing body of scholarship on this topic, I have analyzed Dickinson's view of the mother from a feminist/psychoanalytic perspective. I have found that Dickinson uses nature, solitude and silence to create a mother metaphor which transcends women's subjugation and, instead, shows the strength of the female experience.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts in English

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Year

1992

Author dc:creator

• Radford-Kapp, Barbara

Contributors dc:contributor

• Jane Hoogestraat

• English Language and Literature

Statement dc:rights

• © Barbara Radford-Kapp

Repository record dc:identifier

https://bearworks.missouristate.edu/theses/989

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:bearworks.missouristate.edu:theses-1990