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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_452
dc.contributor.author	秦立彦 Qin Liyan
dc.title	Voices of the Dead. Tao Yuanming and Emily Dickinson’s Poems on Their Own Death
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	it
dc.description.abstract	Ancient Chinese poet Tao Yuanming (365-427) and American poet Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) both write poems on a peculiar theme: the post-death condition with the voice ‘I’ in the poems presented as already dead. This paper explores this rare theme in the two poets and analyzes their similarities and differences in this respect. Both poets are hermits, sharpening their sensitivity to life, death and the natural world. Tao’s vision of the after-death world is very certain, and forms a continuous and unified narrative, while Dickinson describes a new after-death scenario each time, highlighting her uncertainty of it. Yet, after all, these poems by Tao and Dickinson perhaps tell us more about their obsession with life, rather than death.
dc.relation.ispartof	Sinica venetiana
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.issued	2016-09-29
dc.dateSubmitted	2016-07-16
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-098-3/voices-of-the-dead/
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/6969-095-2/SV-3-20
dc.identifier.issn	2610-9654
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9042
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-098-3
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-095-2
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	no
dc.subject	Death
dc.subject	Death
dc.subject	Emily Dickinson
dc.subject	Emily Dickinson
dc.subject	Tao Yuanming
dc.subject	Tao Yuanming

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Voices of the Dead

Tao Yuanming and Emily Dickinson’s Poems on Their Own Death

Qin Liyan 秦立彦 Peking University, China

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Ancient Chinese poet Tao Yuanming (365-427) and American poet Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) both write poems on a peculiar theme: the post-death condition with the voice ‘I’ in the poems presented as already dead. This paper explores this rare theme in the two poets and analyzes their similarities and differences in this respect. Both poets are hermits, sharpening their sensitivity to life, death and the natural world. Tao’s vision of the after-death world is very certain, and forms a continuous and unified narrative, while Dickinson describes a new after-death scenario each time, highlighting her uncertainty of it. Yet, after all, these poems by Tao and Dickinson perhaps tell us more about their obsession with life, rather than death.

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July 16, 2016

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Keywords: Death • Tao Yuanming • Emily Dickinson

permalink: http://doi.org/10.14277/6969-095-2/SV-3-20

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