By Christopher E. G. Benfey
ISBN-10: 0870234374
ISBN-13: 9780870234378
During this well-crafted research, Christopher E. G. Benfey seeks to illustrate the intensity and coherence of Dickinson's pondering. he's involved essentially with Dickinson's relation to skepticism, and he exhibits how her poems offer responses to the declare that we don't have entry to the flora and fauna or to other folks. whereas granting the "truth" of skepticism―that we won't understand with simple task that the area exist, or exists as we event it―Dickinson means that our ties with the area are deeper and extra intimate than the binds of data. considered one of her keyword phrases for this intimacy is "nearness," and her poems provide sustained recognition to the issues encountered in our looking intimacy with other folks.
Benfey additionally examines the advanced position of privateness in Dckinson's paintings, when it comes to either the writing and the studying of her poems. by way of the beginnings of privateness legislations, early sociological makes an attempt to outline privateness, theories of poetry that pressure privateness, and more moderen philosophical discussions of privateness, he's capable of supply an invaluable old context for examining Dickinson's poetry.
Benfey differs from past critics in his willingness to accord Dickinson's poetry a philosophical intensity and ambition that we're getting to know within the writing of Emerson and Thoreau.
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I rely on a certain amount of philosophical writing in this first chapter (and, from time to time, in the following ones). "10 I am not prepared to argue that Dickinson makes a contribution to the philosophical debate on ''other minds," though I am just as unprepared to claim that she does not. I do claim that the debate can help illuminate her poetry and provide a useful vocabulary for discussing it. The second chapter takes up the problem of other people from the perspective of Dickinson's stress on privacy.
Cunningham's phrase, the precise shadings of difference between surmising, inferring, presuming, supposing, conjecturing? Her poems are packed with these words. '' It is the phrase "which we call" that I want to give attention to here. Dickinson appeals to a community of speakers. She is interested in what J. L. Austin calls "the meaning of a word," the word as, in a given situation, we would use it. A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just Begins to live That day. " While saying something, they deny the life of what is said.
Reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of Amherst College. Excerpts from "Ellen West" from The Book of the Body by Frank Bidart. Copyright © 1974, 1975, 1977 by Frank Bidart. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc. "The Moods" from Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats (New York: Macmillan, 1956). Reprinted by permission of Michael Yeats and Macmillan (London) Ltd. "The Deviation" and "Sacred Objects" appear in ''Dedication to Hunger'' copyright © 1980 by Louise Gluck.
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