타자성의 지형학 그려내기: 디킨슨의 시 쓰기

Abstract

This paper aims to draw out Emily Dickinson’s peculiar ways with poetic language. It focuses on a pattern in her poetry in which the poetic narrator’s restless attempt at interpreting objects from a multitude of perspectives runs parallel to the sovereignty the objects maintain to the last. Dickinson demonstrates a modality of existence working independently of the regime of tropes or the transference of poetic language. Many of her poems brilliantly display the tension or interstice between poetic naming and the sheer anteriority that refuses to be named. In them, the image of objects is summoned through poetic reference, while at the same time the sheer anteriority that conditions and limits that image reveals itself in a mode of absence.