The Self-Swarm of Artemis: Emily Dickinson as Bee/Hive/Queen

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TRANSACTIONS OF THE CHARLES S PEIRCE SOCIETY Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI:10.2979/trancharpeirsoc.58.2.05

Joshua M. Hall

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Abstract:Despite the ubiquity of bees in Dickinson's work, most interpreters denigrate her nature poems. But following several recent scholars, I identify Nietzschean/Dionysian overtones in the bee poems and suggest the figure of bees/hive/queen illuminates as feminist key to her corpus. First, (a) the bee's sting represents martyred death; (b) its gold, immortality; (c) its tongue, the "lesbian phallus"; (d) its wings, poetic power; (e) its buzz, poetic melody, and (f) its organism, a joyful Dionysian Susan (her sister-in-law and love interest) to Emily's flower. Second, the hive represents her individual poems (with slants/dashes as stingers, wings as hymn meter, honey as rhymes, variant words as exiled bees, and accompanying flowers their Darwinian coevolution with bees), constituting her writing persona as a multi-voiced self-swarm, as organized in the apiary of her letters and fascicles. And third, the queen represents her Western cultural and religious inheritance wherein bees are symbols of the soul, reincarnation, poetic-philosophical vocation, and a Nietzschean, trans-Dionysian naturalist ontology—symbolized by apiarian Artemis.

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阿耳忒弥斯的自我群:艾米丽·狄金森扮演蜜蜂/蜂巢/女王

摘要:尽管蜜蜂在狄金森的作品中无处不在，但大多数解读者都在诋毁她的自然诗。但随着最近几位学者的研究，我在蜜蜂诗中发现了尼采/酒神的暗示，并认为蜜蜂/蜂巢/女王的形象是她文集中女权主义的关键。首先，(a)蜜蜂的刺代表殉难的死亡;(b)它的黄金是不朽的;(c)它的舌头，“女同性恋阴茎”;(d)它的翅膀，诗意的力量;(e)它的嗡嗡声，诗意的旋律;(f)它的有机体，一个快乐的酒神苏珊(她的嫂子和爱人)对爱米丽的花。其次，蜂箱代表了她的个人诗歌(斜线/横线代表了刺，翅膀代表了圣歌韵律，蜂蜜代表了押韵，变词代表了流放的蜜蜂，伴随的花朵代表了与蜜蜂的达尔文共同进化)，构成了她的写作人格，作为一个多声音的自我群体，就像她的信件和集束的养蜂场一样组织起来的。第三，女王代表了她的西方文化和宗教遗产，其中蜜蜂是灵魂、轮回、诗意哲学职业和尼采式、跨酒神自然主义本体论的象征——养蜂人阿尔忒弥斯是其象征。

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期刊介绍： Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society has been the premier peer-reviewed journal specializing in the history of American philosophy since its founding in 1965. Although named for the founder of American pragmatism, American philosophers of all schools and periods, from the colonial to the recent past, are extensively discussed. TCSPS regularly includes essays, and every significant book published in the field is discussed in a review essay. A subscription to the journal includes membership in the Charles S. Peirce Society, which was founded in 1946 by Frederic H. Young. The purpose of the Society is to encourage study of and communication about the work of Peirce and its ongoing influence in the many fields of intellectual endeavor to which he contributed.