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Snow-Blindness in Emily Dickinson's "Pain Poems"
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Hwang, Tong-Gyu |
| Copyright Year | 1973 |
| Abstract | This brief essay will examine an aspect of Emily Dickinson's "pain poems."l) The three "pain poems" under our scrutiny, written in 1862 according to Thomas H. Johnson, form a distinctive node in Dickinson's poetry. In spite of their subject matter, they show neither "masochist impuls~" which William R. Sherwood detects iil her when she deals with pain and de~pair,~) nor "rigorous stoicisn~ which he finds in the poems like "No Rack Can Torture Me" (J. 384). 3, And they have no special voice, as in "I Can Wade Grief" (J. 252), which moves Archibald MacLeish4) with its quiet restraint mixing heterogeneous elements like "But the least push of Joy/Breaks up my feet" in the grief. The three poems are, in a sense, pure pain poems. They allow little distance between the speaker and t he object, and consequently none of them are included in t he some one hundred poems discussed by John Emerson Todd in his extensive study of Dickinson's use of the per~onae.~) Even death, the life-long obssession to Dickinson's soul, |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://s-space.snu.ac.kr/bitstream/10371/2638/3/englishstudies_v05_181.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
