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T1 Dickinson’s Prosodic Music: Subtlety and Exuberance
A1 Simons, Jefferey
A2 Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid
K1 Filología Inglesa
AB This essay explores Dickinson’s prosodic music by evidencing its expressions of subtlety and exuberance. The essay unfolds in four steps. The first step finds the poet’s prosodic music in distinctive word arrangements with these three features: interlaced phonic echoes, the rhythms of short-lined verse where rhyme marks stanzas, and the motions of intonation. The second step instances Dickinson’s prosodic subtlety in one of her envelope poems, “A Pang is more conspicuous in Spring” (Fr1545B). The third step identifies Dickinson’s prosodic exuberance in two of her bee poems, “There is a flower that Bees prefer” (Fr642) and “I suppose the time will come” (Fr1389). In this step, we discern a hermeneutic key to Dickinson’s lyric art: when a sound in the world catches her ear, the poet’s prosodic music intensifies to reflect her enchantment. The essay’s last step applies the hermeneutic key to a superlative sound in Dickinson’s poetry, that of the wind in “Of all the Sounds despatched abroad” (Fr334).
SN 2531-1654
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/50814
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/50814
LA eng
NO ES Review. Spanish Journal of English Studies; No 42 (2021) pags. 37-54
DS UVaDOC
RD 22-dic-2024