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Linguistic Features of Emily Dickinson’s Poems: A Stylistic Approach

Author: WangZuoQing
Tutor: DongQiMing
School: Capital Normal University
Course: Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
Keywords: Dickinson Stylistic Ordinary rhythm Oblique rhyme Dash
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Type: Master's thesis
Year: 2008
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Abstract

Emily Dickinson is one of the most original poet in the history of American literature. Most of the time in her life, living in their own courtyard, reading, thinking and creativity. Despite the creation of more than a thousand poems works, only less than ten were published after his death. Years of life in Dickinson, poetry writing has a relatively fixed patterns and rules; However, as a hermit, she is in no way limited by this standard. In poetry, Dickinson bold use of many at the time appears to belong to the lack of standardized, even deviant practices; formed her different from their predecessors is the use of these unique techniques, with strong own characteristics stylistic features. Many literary critics affirmed the use of the language of Dickinson, for the general reader, however, is too unique words and sentences likely to cause difficulty in understanding or misreading. In this article, the authors designed a template of a stylistic analysis, interpretation of Dickinson's poetry from four levels of phonology, spelling, syntax and semantics; authors also from Context perspective, in particular the level of the tenor of the impact Dickinson creation of a variety of factors in the analysis, the depth of mining the causes of its stylistic features. The study results show that: Dickinson hymns used in the ordinary rhythm used in most poetry, to distinguish it from the times respected five steps iambic poet of the traditional kind of challenge. In rhyme, Dickinson full rhyme to express strong emotions; oblique rhyme, poets tend to use more time to create a mysterious, ambiguous atmosphere. The use of dashes filled with almost all of the works in Dickinson, and play to create the overall atmosphere in the meantime, to create dramatic conflict, highlighting key concepts and triggered readers to ponder the role. Dickinson presented many words in his poetry, the first letter in uppercase, this unique expression of key words were highlighted. In syntactic, Dickinson often use three contrary to traditional Sentence: the compound sentence omitted sentence and phrase dual Syria, the use of these syntactic poet's emotional expression more effectively and fully. Rhetoric Dickinson and a common language skills: her intention to build poetry through the symbolic approach to realism given by anthropomorphic abstract things, express conflicting emotions through the use of puns and ironic approach to the literary and religious traditions declaration of war . In Tenor level Dickinson suffered during childhood education and family reading habits of her creations had a profound impact. Watts hymns, Shakespeare's plays, the Bible works and English Romantic poetry characterized her work embodied; religious philosophy of her life in the New England region of her worldview and aesthetics also caused can not be ignored the impact. Stylistic analysis template can help the reader to interpret Dickinson's unique poetic style and provide an explain the new ideas, but also for the teachers of English and American Literature.

Linguistic Features of Emily Dickinson’s Poems: A Stylistic Approach

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