On Features And Originality Characteristic Of Emily Dickinson's Poetry

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) is one of the most outstanding poets in American of the 19th century. Her poems are always with extensive subjects and deep thoughts, and renowned with plain but eternal language. And another outstanding characteristic of her poetic language and artic image is that she broke the conventional rule intentionally, but created to depart readers from her poetic language, thus lengthen the way between the readers and the subjects in her poems. This makes the readers can scrutinize them and enjoy new internal beauty. This thesis aims to discuss the artic creating of Dickinson's poetry, intends to explore the techniques Dickinson created poetics of "defamilairizaiton". I intend to explore all aspects of poetic language she has made strange and share its effect with readers, enjoy and analysis a serial of new and immense image, and analysis its rhetoric effect. Coupled with the poet's contemporary living background, probing the matching of the poetics of "defamiliarization" and the poet's internal spirit, conclude the influence and rhetoric value of her poems devoted to American modern poems. There are three chapters of this thesis:Chapter One analyzes the influencing factors of Dickinson's special poetic perceptions and language express way. This extraordinary attitude is closely related to her social and family background, her personal life and her affection contrary and pains.Chapter Two carries on a systematic analysis on different aspects of language from a linguistic approach. Dickinson makes strange the diction, grammar, phonology, graphology and semantics in her poetry. The deviations from the conventions of each aspect function as the techniques of reaching the effect of defamiliarization.Chapter Three emphasizes on the effect of making strange. Through making strange the language, Dickinson's poetry creates a series of uniquely original images. These images are not only the effect of making strange, but also means to make strange readers' perceptions of familiar objects, and through making a series of unique and extraordinary images, gothic atmosphere, formed eccentric and strange poetic image and artic feeling.