Dickinson — Themes of Death, Identity, and Consciousness (HSC SSCE English Advanced): Flashcards

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Dickinson — Themes of Death, Identity, and Consciousness
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Dickinson's elliptical compression technique

Condensed language packing meaning into few words

Calvinist eschatology definition

Religious teachings on death/afterlife emphasising divine judgment

Threshold domesticity in Dickinson

Death as gentle transition, not dramatic rupture from life

Epistemological reversal meaning

Reversal of knowledge/perception as tool of resistance

Inviolable interiority concept

Inner space that cannot be violated by external forces

Noumenal reality definition

True nature of things beyond surface appearances

Psychological cartography in Poem 40

Detailed map of psychological breakdown/mental disintegration

Cognitive architecture meaning

The structure of the mind itself

Synesthetic salvation concept

Salvation through blending senses; pain transformed to ecstasy

Poem 103's famous opening about Death

'Because I could not stop for Death—He kindly stopped for me'

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