美国文学课件12The Literature of the Modernist Period教材课程.pptVIP

Chapter 5 The Literature of the Modernist Period (2) Born in Rutherford, New Jersey Medical School of Pennsylvania Befriended Hilda Doolittle and Ezra Pound His first book of poetry in 1909 Busy in writing and his medical practice Ⅰ . William Carlos Williams(1883-1963) “Medicine was the thing that gained me entrance to these secret gardens of self… I was permitted by my medical badge to follow the poor, defeated body into those gulfs and grottos.” Williams is a great populist, who cared about the interests of ordinary people. Ordinary language from everyday life “No ideas but in things.” A poet is concerned about the specific object, emotion or event. Readers are asked to attend to the thing in itself. The Red Wheelbarrow II. E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) Edward Estlin Cummings An American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright 2900 poems, an autobiographical novel, four plays and several essays, numerous drawings and paintings A revolutionary poet “To be nobody-but-yourself in a world that is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else— means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight.” Free verse, irregular typography(排字式样), startling imagery, word coinages, and syntactical or grammatical distortions !blac“ by E. E. Cummings !blac k agains t (whi) te sky ?t rees whic h from droppe d , le af a;;go e s wh IrlI n .g A scene of a falling leaf The last letter(s) of one word are on the following line. “black against white sky,” “trees which from dropped,” “leaf a goes whirling “Your Little Voice” by E. E. Cummings Tulips and Chimneys (1923) What seems to be the relationship between the speaker in “Your Little Voice and the person with the little voice? This poem can be divided into two parts, namely the one before and after the showing up of the girl in expression. “Your Little Voice” 1 your little voice2?????????????????Over the wires came leaping3 and i felt suddenly4 dizzy Lines 1–4 : What is actually happ