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Emily Dickinson"s Negative Poetics

&nbsp;&nbsp;Emily Dickinson keenly recognized women&quot;s tragedy in the attitude of women sustaining the dominant ideology by taking use of their femininity as social victims. She used domestic and religious imagery to reveal negative realities strategically as if scaffolds were to be removed after the building was completed. With this typical imagery, she could avoid her own contemporary censorship and discard it. This made it possible to disclose not only the inertia but also the totalitarian characteristics of the dominant ideology.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Superficial presentation of passive self as a victim could divulge the subconsciousness of the dominant ideology as well as the mechanism in which the passive existence was forced to stay in passivity. While the oppressive social structure of religious, patriarchal, and economic power has continued up to now, Dickinson&quot;s modernity lies in seeking after ways of overcoming from the victim&quot;s viewpoint.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;By not compromising the negative reality, she pursued to preserve her uniqueness and creativity recognizing women&quot;s social position as &quot;subjects&quot; and, at the same time, as &quot;others&quot;. Her life and poetry was &quot;to negate the negativity&quot;, so it could be defined as &quot;negative poetics&quot;.