Issues of Mortality in Emily Dickinsons I Video
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As a poet, Dickinson addresses many themes in ways that are subject to countless layers of interpretation. This essay focuses particularly on the theme of death, a prevalent topic in nineteenth-century America, due to confluence of cultural and historical events, among them the American Civil War. As a result of her particular style of being in, and of reflecting upon the world, Dickinson addresses death in unexpected ways.
Through the use of humor under a more or less obvious form of reductio ad absurdum, Dickinson successfully and articulately pokes fun at prevailing customs and ideas surrounding death and dying. This essay explores the forms used by Dickinson to achieve comic effect, namely, the exchange of language between different contexts. Through the dissociation between the verbal form and its so-called natural environment, Dickinson actively subverts ingrained concepts while creating absurdly comic situations. In that sense, her humor is the result of a culturally contingent wordplay, aimed at experimenting with and gaining power over the uncontrollable force of death.
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Through the use of historical, cultural and literary sources, as well as of writings by and about Emily Dickinson, this essay brings to light the manifold ways which Dickinson uses to create humorous situations in her poetic work on the theme of death. Notes: This text is available online in the University Library's Repository, where it can be accessed in its Issjes. Activity: Downloads: 0. Back to Deposits. Not recently active.
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