现代主义诗歌-美国文学.ppt

Modernist Poetry Background Information Silence of American Poetry after the death of Whitman and Dickinson at the turn of 20th Century American poetry in the Genteel Tradition of British Romanticism Exaltation of nature, love and life Breach with reality Traditional form Classical literary and mythical allusion (Vachel Lindsay, E. A. Robinson, Robert Frost) Modernistic reform in form and imagery Background Information Two poetic trends T. S. Eliot—John Crowe Ransom—Allen Tate (emphasis on profound knowledge and European cultural tradition) Ezra Pound—William Carlos Williams—Hilda Doolittle (emphasis native American landscape) Background Information Diversity of poetic forms Symbolism Impressionism Futurism Super-realism Japanese Haiku Free verse (Whitman+Sandburg/catalogue/meterless vs. Eliot and Pound/rhythm and musicality) Prose poem imagism Harriet Monroe and Louis Untermeyer Harriet Monroe Poetry: A Magazine of Verse (1912) You and I Chose Poem The New Poetry: An Anthology Louis Untermeyer Modern American Poetry Modern British Poetry The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer Carl Sandburg “Indubitably an American in every pulse-beat.” (H. L. Mencken) Sympathizer of Whitman and works in Whitman’s tradition (barbaric language, overflowing of emotions) Life of the lower classes and corrupted urban civilization as well as exaltation of modern cities Everyday language often of the working class, even slang Realistic atmosphere Vivid images of “indecent” places The Fog by Carl Sandburg The Fog The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on. Works of Carl Sandburg Chicago Poems (1916)Complete Poems (1950)Cornhuskers (1918)Good Morning, America (1928)Harvest Poems (1950)Honey and Salt (1963)In Reckless Ecstasy (1904)Selected Poems (1926)Slabs of the Sunburnt West (1922)Smoke and Steel (1920)The People, Yes (1936) Vachel Lindsay Father of modern singing poetry Prairie Troubadou