美国文学WallaceStevens.ppt

Wallace Stevens(1879-1955)·     The house of Wallace StevensWallace Stevens monument Life and career•Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was an American Modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and he spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut.–The son of a prosperous lawyer, Stevens attended Harvard as a non-degree special student, after which he moved to New York City and briefly worked as a journalist. He then attended New York Law School, graduating in 1903. –After he graduating from New York law school he was admitted to the New York bar in 1904, the year he met Elsie Rachel, a young woman from Reading, whom he married in 1909. They had a daughter, Holly, who was born in 1924 and later edited her father's letters and a collection of his poems.–After working for several New York law firms from 1904 to 1907, he was hired on January 13, 1908, as a lawyer for the American Bonding Company. By 1914 he had become the vice-president of the New York office of the Equitable Surety Company of St. Louis, Missouri.Life and careeroHe received the National Book Award in 1951 and 1955.(美)国家图书奖oWon the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1955.(普利策奖) nFirst book of poetry entitled Harmonium, 1923. nTwo more major books of poetry during the 1920s and 1930s and three more in the 1940s.nCollected Poems in 1955, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.     Stevens's first published work Harmonium appeared in 1914 in Poetry magazine. Harmonium (1923) was his first collection of verse. It contains some of his best known poems,                                     Le Monocle de Mon Uncle《我叔叔的单片眼镜》  The Emperor of Ice Cream《冰激凌皇帝》Including Sunday Morning 《星期日早晨》 Anecdote of the Jar《坛子轶闻》 The Necessary Angel《必要地天使》Later works of poetry included :Ideas of Order《秩序的思考》 (1935), The Man with the Blue Guitar《拿蓝色吉它的人》 (1937), Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction 《超小说笔记》(1942), (which is often considered his masterpiece)The Auroras of Autumn《秋日晨曦》 (1950). Literary styleoHe believes that the poet should find beautifulness, joy,, fun, stimulation and meanings in the dirty realities of the socity.So he committed to study the inherent relationship between reality and art;The poet‘s meditation on nature： he advocated the acceptance of the natural reality of life, against the World of Ultimate Bliss;The later poems tend to thinking. there is no fixed pattern.It is difficult to understand.1.Language: meticulous; full of wit, puns, and irony; difficult to understand.2. 语言细致，充满智慧的，多用双关语，讽刺;很难理解。

3.2. A sensual poet, delight in depicting the world by finding the pleasure in senses. 4. 一个感性的诗人，发现在感官的快乐世界中描绘的喜悦Reputation and influenceoIn his early career, influenced by the imagist movement and the verse revolution of the time.oIn the late years, he became diffuse and reflective. “his poems were composed in the meditative mood and were filled with paradoxical generalizations and quasi-philosophical deliberations.”Reputation and influenceoStevens’s work became even better known after his death.oMany poets—James Merrill and Donald Justice most explicitly—have acknowledged Stevens as a major influence on their work, and his impact may also be seen in John Ashbery, Mark Strand, Jorie Graham, John Hollander, and others.One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs Of the pine-trees crusted with snow; And have been cold a long time To behold the junipers shagged with ice, The spruces rough in the distant glitter 若想敬仰松树枝干若想敬仰松树枝干层层为霜雪覆盖，层层为霜雪覆盖，你得具备冬天的头脑。

你得具备冬天的头脑在寒冷中持久凝视，在寒冷中持久凝视，那冰雪蓬松的刺柏丛林，那冰雪蓬松的刺柏丛林，那闪烁在远处那闪烁在远处诗歌诗歌欣赏欣赏Of the January sun; and not to think Of any misery in the sound of the wind, In the sound of a few leaves, Which is the sound of the land Full of the same wind That is blowing in the same bare place For the listener, who listens in the snow, And, nothing himself, beholds Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is. 腊月阳光下的迷漫云杉腊月阳光下的迷漫云杉不要去想那风声不要去想那风声和树叶夹带着的凄凉和树叶夹带着的凄凉这声音是风地里的声音，这声音是风地里的声音，这风是为在空地上的你而这风是为在空地上的你而吹在雪里聆听的人儿啊，在雪里聆听的人儿啊，听着与己无关的事儿，听着与己无关的事儿，那儿不存在的东西看见，那儿不存在的东西看见，眼里只有现存的一片空旷。

眼里只有现存的一片空旷 诗歌分析o本篇名为“雪人”，却没有描写任何雪人的意 象，作者强调想象力的作用，希望通过诗歌朦胧的内涵，构筑起联系现实和想象世界的桥梁，把“雪人”蕴于诗行中，使其成为一个巧妙的隐喻，用于比喻一种抽象的、虚无的“冬日心境” 小组成员：  李会娟  李新莉  梁红燕。