Emily Dickinson in vain

This is a biography of the nineteenth century poet, Emily Dickinson.Women's and Gender Studie

The Emily Dickinson Machine & Hybrid Poetry Generation

This thesis introduces EMILY, a machine that creates original poems in the style of renowned poet Emily Dickinson. Dickinson’s succinct and syntactically distinct style with unconventional punctuation makes for an interesting challenge for automated poetry creation. Furthermore, we adapt EMILY to answer the following hypothetical question: What if Emily Dickinson had collaborated with another poet from a different time period? To this end, we introduce Hybrid Generative Poetry, which simultaneously integrates poetic elements from multiple poets. Using two distinct approaches to Hybrid Poetry generation, we create poetry in the combined styles of Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost. User studies are conducted to evaluate both EMILY and the Hybrid Poetry approaches

The Psychic Development of a Woman Writer

Emily Dickinson is a foremother of women writers. However, women searching for a model of independence have not recognized the power and knowledge of Emily Dickinson and consequently have ignored a primary source of sustenance. In Vesuvius at Home: The Power of Emily Dickinson, Adrienne Rich remarks: I have been surprised at how narrowly her work, still, is known by women who are writing poetry, how much her legend has gotten in the way of her being re-possessed, as a source and a foremother (59). Dickinson preserved her struggle for mental independence in her poetry, and this record serves as a diary of the challenges, the pains, and the joys that a woman experiences when she attempts to know her soul. By exploring Dickinson\u27s struggles, her defeats and victories, a person gains a valuable source of knowledge in a woman\u27s search for her creative self

The Study of Zhou Jianxin’s Translated Version of Emily Dickinson’s Poems from the Perspective of Jindi’s Equivalent Theory

Emily Dickinson is a well-known poet in American literature, writing nearly 1800 poems during her lifetime. Dickinson’s poems are studied and translated by scholars and translators in China. Zhou Jianxin is an outstanding professor to study Emily Dickinson. The present author uses Jindi’s equivalent theory to analyze Zhou Jianxin’s translated version of Emily Dickinson’s poem, hoping that this paper will provide a new angle to appreciate Chinese version of English poems and give some inspiration to translation theories

Emily Dickinson\u27s Approach to Poetry

One of the most fascinating aspects of any poet is his conception of his art. Many poets have written extensively on the theory of art around which they orient their poetry. Others have clearly revealed their theories by writing criticism of other authors. Emily Dickinson, however, left no critical essays, no elucidation of her artistic principles. It is quite probable, indeed, that she did not consciously concern herself to any extent with poetic theory. She may have written, and written in her unique way, through an instinctive need which would admit of no plodding deliberation or stylistic experimentation. Still, such a need would resolve itself in certain characteristic ways. Implicit in these ways would be an intellectual and emotional approach to poetry. I believe the main elements of that approach are discoverable. A major difficulty confronting the student of Emily Dickinson is the unsettled state of her published material. It is remarkable that the poems were published at all considering their chaotic condition in manuscript and the strange career of these manuscripts after Emily Dickinson\u27s death. The editorial quagmire from which the published poems emerged, however, does not make the errors and shortcomings more palatable. So many errors have been detected in Poems by Emily Dickinson, edited by Martha Dickinson Bianchi and Alfred Leete Hampson, that one hesitates to accept the authenticity of the wording of any poem in the volume. Both this volume and Bolts of Melody, edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and Millicent Todd Bingham, suffer from poor organization. The poems are neither arranged chronologically nor categorized into well-defined classifications but are lumped under such inadequate headings as Time and Eternity and That Campaign Inscrutable. Despite the difficulties involved, there is ample justification for giving critical attention to Emily Dickinson\u27s poems. In the first place, no matter who determined the final wording of the poems, many emerge as great works of genius. It is, after all, the poems, not the personalities involved, with which a student is primarily concerned. Also, by finding and compiling from Emily Dickinson\u27s poems and letters selections which are relevant to a particular subject, the student can infer the poet\u27s own attitudes concerning that subject. Her statements speak for themselves when systematically presented in their proper relationships and contexts, whereas the individual thoughts and attitudes are obscured in a haphazard and confusing multiplicity of themes in the present editions of her work. After sketching the background of Emily Dickinson\u27s poetry, I shall show her attitude toward the individual word in regard to its power for communication. Next I shall discuss the mystical tendency which her poems exhibit and compare her position with traditional mysticism as treated by Evelyn Underhill in her two authoritative books, Mysticism and The Mystic Way. In the fourth chapter I shall indicate how Emily Dickinson\u27s attitude toward communication and her mystical tendency result in a rather definite aesthetic position which affected her attitude toward the creation of poetry. I shall conclude by examining an example of her best work, There\u27s a certain slant of light, which exhibits many of the essential characteristics of Emily Dickinson\u27s approach to poetry

Dalla gabbia tipografica allo spazio dello scrivere. Il “corpus elettrico” di Emily Dickinson

La poetessa americana Emily Dickinson costituisce un caso particolarmente interessante anche per gli studi di Information Science e Digital Humanities. L'intero suo corpus poetico è stato infatti pubblicato postumo e sottoposto a pesanti revisioni che hanno finito per stravolgere il senso stesso di una scrittura estremamente personale e rivoluzionaria. Il nuovo "spazio dello scrivere", il Web, potrà invece offrire finalmente al lettore una edizione critica completa e aderente all'originale. Risorse di rete dedicate a Dickinson sono già disponibili, ma ancora molto resta da fare. Studiosi di letteratura e di Information Science potranno condividere competenze e approcci critici per cercare di "liberare" Emily Dickinson