The Great Figure.ppt

1、The Great Figure,“The poem as it stands is the product of a visual experience and should be regarded as such. If it is approached from within a literary framework it loses its significance.” (Bram Dijkstra, The Hieroglyphics of a New Speech: Cubism, Stieglitz, and the Early Poetry of William Carlos

2、Williams, Princeton University Press, 1969, pp. 76-78:),Poetic method: “No ideas but in things.” -William Carlos Williams,/catalog/extras/vvspot/video/williams.html,The Great Figure,Among the rainand lightsI saw the figure 5in goldon a redfire truckmovingtenseunheededto gong cla

3、ngssiren howlsand wheels rumblingthrough the dark city,William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)Sour Grapes: A Book of PoemsFour Seas Company, Boston, 1921,Charles Demuth (1883-1935) The Figure 5 in Gold (1928),The Great Figure,Among the rainand lightsI saw the figure 5in goldon a redfire truckmovingtense

4、unheededto gong clangssiren howlsand wheels rumblingthrough the dark city,Christopher J. MacGowans “William Carlos Williams The Great Figure and Marsden Hartley” in American Literature, Vol. 53, No. 2 (May, 1981),Williams writes in the Autobiography: “Once on a hot July day coming back exhausted fro

5、m the Post Graduate Clinic, I dropped in as I sometimes did at Marsdens studio on Fifteenth Street for a talk, a little drink maybe and to see what he was doing. As I approached his number I heard a great clatter of bells and the roar of a fire engine passing the end of the street down Ninth Avenue. I turned just in time to see a golden figure 5 on a red background flash by. The impression was so sudden and forceful that I took a piece of paper out of my pocket and wrote a short poem about it.”,Marsden Ha