A auto-ironia na poesia de Emily Dickinson

Abstract

Emily Dickinson ironizes herself in different ways and for different
reasons. Self-irony affects her condition as a woman, undervalued in a predominantly patriarchal society, as an incredulous and fearful person, who recognizes the deficiencies and smallness of human beings, and as a poet in face of the precariousness of the linguistic instrument. In this last situation, romantic irony is most evident. Dealing with the great themes she always tackled, such as life, death, faith, and salvation, the self-ironical poems, often of a biographical nature, lead us to an ironical vision of the world based on self-irony.