美国文学课件12The Literature of the Modernist Period

美国文学课件12TheLiteratureoftheModernistPeriodBorninRutherford,NewJerseyMedicalSchoolofPennsylvaniaBefriendedHildaDoolittleandEzraPoundHisfirstbookofpoetryin1909BusyinwritingandhismedicalpracticeⅠ.WilliamCarlosWilliams

(1883-1963)“Medicinewasthethingthatgainedmeentrancetothesesecretgardensofself…Iwaspermittedbymymedicalbadgetofollowthepoor,defeatedbodyintothosegulfsandgrottos.”Williamsisagreatpopulist,whocaredabouttheinterestsofordinarypeople.Ordinarylanguagefromeverydaylife“Noideasbutinthings.”Apoetisconcernedaboutthespecificobject,emotionorevent.Readersareaskedtoattendtothethinginitself.TheRedWheelbarrow“TheRedWheelbarrow”—ByWilliamCarlosWilliamssomuchdepends uponSomuchwhat?Somuchdependsonwhat?Whyisn’tthereanypunctuation?Whatdoes“glazed”mean?Whyare“wheelbarrow”and“rainwater”cutinto“wheelbarrow”and“rainwater”?aredwheelglazedwithrainbesidethewhitechickensWhatdoesthispoemvalue?barrowwater

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（美）威廉·卡洛斯·威廉斯/覃学岚译II.E.E.Cummings(1894-1962)EdwardEstlinCummingsAnAmericanpoet,painter,essayist,author,andplaywright2900poems,anautobiographicalnovel,fourplaysandseveralessays,numerousdrawingsandpaintingsArevolutionarypoet“Tobenobody-but-yourselfinaworldthatisdoingitsbest,nightandday,tomakeyoueverybodyelse—meanstofightthehardestbattlewhichanyhumanbeingcanfight.”Freeverse,irregulartypography(排字式样),startlingimagery,wordcoinages,andsyntacticalorgrammaticaldistortions"!blac“byE.E.Cummings

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AsceneofafallingleafThelastletter(s)ofonewordareonthefollowingline.“blackagainstwhitesky,”“treeswhichfromdropped,”“leafagoeswhirling"“YourLittleVoice”byE.E.CummingsTulipsandChimneys(1923)Whatseemstobetherelationshipbetweenthespeakerin“YourLittleVoice"andthepersonwiththelittlevoice?Thispoemcanbedividedintotwoparts,namelytheonebeforeandaftertheshowingupofthegirlinexpression.“YourLittleVoice”1yourlittlevoice

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6weeskippinghigh-heeledflames

7courtesiedbeforemyeyes

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courtesied:bowedwithbendedknees;curtsiedLines5–6:Pleaseexplainwhatmeaningoreffectthepoetwantedtogainwiththeunexpectedcombinationofimagery.9Lookedup

10withimpertinentlyexquisitefaces

11floatinghandswerelaiduponme

12Iwaswhirledandtossedintodeliciousdancing

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Whatisthemeaningoftheunexpectedcombinationofimagery?Whatistheimportanceofthecalltothespeaker?

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19Howiwascrazyhowicriedwheniheard

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