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Sounding the Sublime: The "Full Music" of Dickinson's Inspiration
- The Emily Dickinson Journal
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 13, Number 1, 2004
- pp. 51-75
- 10.1353/edj.2004.0005
- Article
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Abstract
Emily Dickinson's Poem "He fumbles at your Soul" (J315) engages its reader primarily through the strategic use of the sonic qualities of language. The engagement involves inducing in the reader an experience similar to what the poem describes: poetic/divine inspiration, within the context of the sublime. Because Dickinson is able to induce in her reader an approximation of what she experiences as inspiration, and because that experience is marked by sublimity, "He fumbles" can act as a sublime object for the reader.
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