"Inhere as do the Suns – ". Light and Infinity. Ecopoetic Aspects of Emily Dickinson's Poetry

Abstract

Abstract The thesis examines the ecopoetical aspects of Emily Dickinson’s poetry within the framework of Timothy Morton’s environmental aesthetics. The main objective of my enquiry is to investigate the contemporary relevance of Dickinson’s poems within the expanding field of environmental studies to explore their central role in a wider ecological context. These enquiries are related to Morton’s model of coexistence, which is incorporated into his central concept of the ecological thought. The analysis examines the repetitive imagery of luminosity in the poems by applying a materialistic reading of Morton’s ambient poetics. The synesthetic device, ellipsis, and Dickinson’s poetics of circumference are used to analyze the poems. The analysis also draws parallels with Jacque Derrida’s concept of hospitality and Emmanuel Levinas’s phenomenological philosophy related to transcendence of the other and infinity.