Human (re)constructions by means of silence: modern confluences in Emily Dickinson's poetry diction

Abstract

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) builds in her poetic work an introspective world among silences and voids, which unbelievably communicate and celebrate life's mysteries. These aspects establish universal echoes for the (re)construction of humanity, before the process of reification developed by the lirycal I self. Thus, the aim of this research is guide from looking at reality through the lens of literary modernity perspective's, regulated through the aesthetic and intersubjective effects of Emily Dickinson's sweeping poetic diction. In this way, what seems to be possible, distant, and undesirable is transfigured into poetic matter, which brings in itself edifying responses to human beings. Therefore, this poet sometimes moves away from reality to better approximate, above all, to understand it. In this sense, the contextualized reading of poems that represent Emily Dickinson's poetry, in constant dialogue with the theoretical contributions adopted, Paz (2009) Bosi (1977) Orlandi (2007), who guided this research methodology in the search for understanding silence's representation and its humanizing implications through contextual readings.