Emily Dickinson and the Vitality of Words:An Exercise in Philology
Emily Dickinson and the Vitality of Words:An Exercise in Philology作者机构:Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts
出 版 物:《外语论丛》 (Journal of Foreign Language)
年 卷 期:2017年第1期
页 面:112-132页
学科分类:0502[文学-外国语言文学] 050201[文学-英语语言文学] 05[文学]
主 题:Emily Dickinson etymology vitality cognitive analysis poems
摘 要:Poets are acutely sensitive to the etymology of *** is especially true of Emily Dickinson,the nineteenth century American *** subtle meanings hovering around her poetic words reflect the broad scope of her reading and indicate her knowledge of and sensitivity to the history of the English lexicon,based as it is on both Germanic and Romance *** a cognitive analysis of several of her poems,I show how an understanding of the etymology of her chosen words enables the reader to feel the animating life-force of the spirit throughout Dickinson’s poetry.