The Semiotic and the Symbolic: The Rejuvenative Effect of Writing in Mary Steele’s “Sonnet, 1795”

This paper aims to examine the eighteenth-century British poet, Mary Steele’s “Sonnet, 1795” in terms of recuperative power act writing and relationship between semiotic symbolic. The study suggests that sonnet serves as poetic testament symbolic real life historical author who manage her emotional suffering mental agony via therapeutic writing. female has a confrontation with what is be repressed on through production bears witness traumatic experiences physical losses. Through negation sublimation, attains order chaotic cognitive affective states develop an awareness about subconsciousness psychologically ails her. Therefore, she does not intend improve abilities self-actualize aspiring being search feminine sublime, but rather seeks refuge against applies poetry device way escaping from reality. Within this context, there correlation semiotic, authorial interest inner motives poet. Against background, employs theory Julia Kristeva regarding liaison literary creation figure, redemptive poetics offers for persona renewing effect production.