This paper is aimed at dealing with the cognitive and epistemological significance in Emily Dickinson’s use of metonymy in her poems of nature which earlier critics termed enigmatic or definitional. Based on textual analysis, the author of this paper attempts to illustrate that, as opposed to Emerson’s ideal of transcendence, Dickinson takes worldly contingency as necessary elements of her poetry and proceeds metonymically rather than metaphorically in presenting her everyday encounter with nature and her meditative observation of it. The author also holds that Dickinson’s concern about contiguity and contingency, her preference for the metonymical way of knowing, sets her apart from the Emersonian visionary tradition and implicates her perspectival stand with regard to man’s potential to know nature with language as the medium.

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艾米莉·狄金森（Emily Dickinson）和她的转喻认识自然的方式

本文旨在探讨艾米莉·狄金森（Emily Dickinson）在她的自然诗中使用转喻的认知和认识论意义，早期批评家将其称为谜或定义。基于文本分析，本文作者试图说明，与爱默生的超越理想相反，狄金森将世俗的偶然性作为她诗歌的必要元素，并通过转喻而不是隐喻地介绍了她与自然和冥想的日常相遇。它的。作者还认为，狄金森（Dickinson）对连续性和偶然性的关注，她偏爱转喻的认识方式，这使她与艾默生主义的远见传统区分开来，并暗示了她对于人以语言为媒介来了解自然的潜力的观点立场。