Bad Weather over Amherst: On the Abstraction of the Real from the Primal Signifier
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TexteLangue : français Détails de publication : 2012.
Ressources en ligne : Abrégé : Based on the analysis of the notion of abstraction in “An Awful Tempest Mashed the Air,” by Emily Dickinson, this article discusses the poem’s conventional dramatic theme, the description of a tempest followed by the restoration of atmospheric order. On the one hand, hope and satisfaction are taken for granted; on the other hand, the signifiers at work in the poem contradict and undermine the artificial simplicity of discourse. Above all, the final word, paradise, involves many issues, both literary and ideological, and the detailed analysis of the poem will try to reveal its unexpected meaning.
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Based on the analysis of the notion of abstraction in “An Awful Tempest Mashed the Air,” by Emily Dickinson, this article discusses the poem’s conventional dramatic theme, the description of a tempest followed by the restoration of atmospheric order. On the one hand, hope and satisfaction are taken for granted; on the other hand, the signifiers at work in the poem contradict and undermine the artificial simplicity of discourse. Above all, the final word, paradise, involves many issues, both literary and ideological, and the detailed analysis of the poem will try to reveal its unexpected meaning.
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