La fenomenología de la muerte en la poesía de Emily Dickinson
ISSN: 0211-5913
Année de publication: 1989
Número: 19-20
Pages: 241-254
Type: Article
D'autres publications dans: Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses
Résumé
This paper is an attempt to analyze the mystical and mythical implications of death in Emily Dickinson's poetry, evidencing the magicoreligious quality of her spiritual universe. Heavily relying on the neoplatonic body of thought. Emily Dickinson does not regard death as the total annihilation of existence; in spite of the terror and anguish it evokes, death is a stage within an initiatory process and constitutes a pathway to a higher spiritual mode of being. Seen from this mythical perspective, death arrogates itself a spiritualizing and creative function which changes man's ontological status.