Poetics of the Medial State of Emily Dickinson’s Persona

Yinping Wang

doi:10.25159/1753-5387/12776

Authors

Yinping Wang Henan Police College

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25159/1753-5387/12776

Keywords:

perception , conceptual image, immanent mythology, protagonist, medial state

Abstract

Emily Dickinson, the famous 19th-century American poet with a passion for books, botany, and gardens, spent most of her life secluded in her bedroom, where she wrote some 1,800 poems, published only posthumously. Within four walls, the poet built an imaginary bridge between the real and the unreal. One of the most important characteristics relating to the poet is the unwitting creation of an immanent authorial mythology. This article is an analysis-reflection on the poet’s work, her artistic expression, and autofiction. The aim is to highlight the concept of boundary and medial state of the lyrical persona. A linguistic analysis of lexical and semantic syntagms of the poet’s works is carried out. The conceptual images of poetics, conveying the receptive potential of the poet’s worldview, are determined. Consideration of the use of stylistic forms of the poetic narrative was revealed as a priority for media-oriented analysis.

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Author Biography

Yinping Wang, Henan Police College

Department of Foreign Languages, Henan Police College

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