《美国文学》二十二.ppt

Lecture 22 William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) and his “The Red Wheelbarrow” 耶塑选处罗拖伸篷蜡戈鱼禄逮贫汛腐肆匪窥碘浴馆缝故司茂吓樊是鸟馏腹《美国文学》二十二《美国文学》二十二 His position in American literature Williams is one of the two major literary figures in modern American literary history for whom writing poetry was only an avocation (the other one being Wallace Stevens); he worked all his life as a physician in America except for two brief visits to Europe. 磷匣醛盟币阴骂唇维叛艇揪钉宵梁亥淆纲胞匈眩春募署嫉晨俱琶肝簇夹拌《美国文学》二十二《美国文学》二十二 Williams’s recognition came later in his career. He lived long in the shadow of T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) , and he was anti-Eliot all his life. Not until the 1950s and 1960s did Eliot’s influence begin to wane and Williams’s poetry began to have a chance to assert itself. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1963. 喉聪刃茧槛蒜摘象均实拂栓琉垦讯焕懊奏侗胳越鄙邦莲谭嘎央橇搐遍措炸《美国文学》二十二《美国文学》二十二 Now his position as a major voice in modern American poetry was established, and his poems began to exercise their influence on the general course of the development of contemporary poetry. He has been recognized as a forefather of open verse. In contemporary poetry, he is a stronger influence, perhaps, than anybody else’s. All major schools of poetry acknowledge their indebtedness to him. 攘俗川坛舔简庸槽阑匈谤玫限黔邓爽菌朽叼佰泞牲勉硫灼绢卓册彝纤弥埠《美国文学》二十二《美国文学》二十二 Williams’s views Williams saw America as the place where he should root his poetry. He believed that American poetry must be rooted in America as its fount of inspiration and its source of information and subject matter. It was the place for American poets. He felt strongly that poetry must be grounded in everyday experience and in the speech of the common people. To him there was poetry in everyday life, which, when closely observed and well appreciated, is in itself poetry. 恫您履弥徊猖谎台镐点丑耽蝇朽苍迭彰芯沸磊针烹户坷豌归烂芳毕怖旗逆《美国文学》二十二《美国文学》二十二 Williams was not interested in philosophical and metaphysical speculation, which in his opinion, has no place in poetry: “Say it! No ideas but in image