Anecdoteofthejar坛子的轶事.ppt

AnecoteoftheJar,by-WallaceStevens,WallaceStevens（华莱士史蒂文斯）AnAmericanModernistpoet.StevenswasborninReading(雷丁).HeeucatedatHarvardandthenNewYorkLawSchool.StevensspentmostofhislifeworkingasalawyerfortheHartfordinsurancecompanyinConnecticut(康涅狄格).,StevensfirstpublishedworkHarmoniumappearedin1914inpoetrymagazine.Harmonium(1923)washisfirstcollectionofverse.Itcontainssomeofhisbestknownpoems.Works:LeMonocledeMonOncle我叔叔的单片眼镜TheEmperorofIceCream冰激凌皇帝SundayMorning礼拜天早晨AnecdoteoftheJar坛子的轶事PeterQuinceattheClavier大键琴上的彼得昆ThirteenWaysofLookingataBlackbird观赏乌鸦的十三种方式,AnecoteoftheJarIplacedajarinTennessee,Androunditwas,uponahill.ItmadetheslovenlywildernessSurroundthathill.Thewildernessroseuptoit,Andsprawledaround,nolongerwild.ThejarwasrounduponthegroundAndtallandofaportinair.Ittookdominoneverywhere.Thejarwasgaryandbare.Itdidnotgivebirdorbush,LikenothingelseinTennessee.,坛子的轶事我把一只坛子放在田纳西它圆圆的，矗立在山顶原本凌乱的荒野因它而向小山环聚荒野向它涌来并向四周蔓延，不再狂野圆圆的坛子在地面上格外突出高的像空中的海港它统治着所有地方虽然它光秃秃、灰溜溜它不孳生鸟雀或树丛但它与田纳西的任何一样东西就是不同,Summary,ThepoemwrittenbyWallaceStevensismainlyyabouttherelationshipbetweennatureandart.Thepoetthinksthatthenatureisadesultoryworldandonlyideascanmakeitunitedasawhole.ThisisaboutthewhitemancomingtoTennesseeandstickingoutlikeajaronahill,buthavingdominionoverthewildnatives,plantsandcreatures,andtamingthem.Likethejar,thewhitemanputhimselfabovenature,anddidntgiveback.,Appreciate,Thepoemusesconfusingwordingtoshowtherelationshipbetweenhumanbeingsandnature.Forexample,line9says,Ittookdominioneverywhere.Itreferstonature,meaningthepowerthatnaturehasoverthatofthejar(humans).Naturesdominantpowerweakenshumans.Humanbeingsthenbecomepowerlessandvulnerabletowhatevernaturehasbecome.Anotherlineprovesthisdominantstate,Thejarwasgrayandbare.Thislinedescribesthejarofbeingplainandsimple.Thisnormalcybecomesineffectiveandpowerless.Theordinarydoesnthaveasmuchpowerastheobjectsthatstickoutfromthecrowd.Humanbeingsdontseemtostandoutinthevastnessofthewilderness.,Thenextlineturnsthecontrolinaninterestingway:Itdidnotgiveofbirdorbush.Becausethejarisinthepreviousline,itisnaturaltothinkitinthislinereferstothejar.Theplotbeginstothickenasitispreviouslysuggestedthatthewildernesshadallthecontrolintherelationship.Thejarnowbecomesanauthoritybecauseitwillnotgiveintothenaturalworld.Tothereader,therelationshipjustbecomesundefined.Thepoweristurnedoverfromnaturetoman.,Stevensalsoshowsthedominantissueinthebeginningofthepoem.Hesays,Itmadetheslovenlywilderness/Surroundthathill.Theauthorityisplacedagaininfrontofthejar.Thewildernessiscarelessandawareofthisnewobjectplacedinitsenvironment.Thenthepoemstates,Thewildernessroseuptoit/Andsprawledaroundnolongerwild.Therolesarereversedonceagain.Thewildernessisnowincharge.Thereversaloftherolescontainsthepoeminanenvironmentofutterconfusion.Stevensshowedthereaderthatthisrelationshipreallywaschaotic,throughoutthepoem,toprovehispoint.,Stevenscreatedthisconfusingstatetoallowthereadertoreallyfeelwhattherelationshipisbetweenthetwo.Thisrelationshipishardtounderstandandissomethingthatcannotbeset.Usingirregularrhymesandwording,Stevenswasabletocreatethisunsolvablerelationship.Stevensprovesthathisideaoftherelationshipbetweenhumanandnatureiscorrect.Forexample,thisverypaperisfromatreethatmanhascutdown,showingthatnatureisdefenseless.Ontheotherhand,therearecertainlyan