“He fumbles with your Soul” : Emily Dickinson entre le piano et l’univers
Abstract
To what extent can one experiment with language? The essay will centre on a close reading of a poem by Emily Dickinson "He fumbles with your Soul" dating from 1862. In it, the poet endeavours to assess how far she can go in order to establish what her true identity or self is. She eventually discovers that it has nothing to do with the notion of identity. It is not something one possesses either. In order to understand her experiment, the approach adopted in the essay draws its inspiration from the concept of "modus" originally put forward by Spinoza. There is obviously only one Emily Dickinson, but she exists only through a multiplicity of modes of being. She exhibited one in her daily life, but, every time she started writing one of her small texts alone in her bedroom, she elaborated a new mode of being as she worked with words and tried to fathom what really constituted what she was when considered outside the norms of her community.
Les écrits de la poétesse américaine Emily Dickinson s'attachent à une réflexion sur le moi, le monde et le divin, le moi, tout en refusant les modèles que lui propose la société de son temps, caractérisée entre autres par des réseaux traditionnels de repères sociaux, religieux et psychologiques. Son refus s'étendait aussi au langage conventionnel, corollaire de la pensée puritaine. Écrivant sur les marges, elle cherche à expérimenter avec les mots pour voir jusqu'où il serait possible d'aller. Ses poèmes étaient illisibles par ses contemporains (et de fait non publiés de son vivant). L'étude portera sur le poème "A Bird came down the Walk", interrogation sur la frontière entre nature et société.
Domains
Literature| Origin | Publisher files allowed on an open archive |
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