华莱士 史蒂文斯 Wallace Stevence

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Thoughts & Writing Style
1. Main topic: the relationship between reality and poetry, nature and imagination
2. 2 kinds of reality: a. The objective reality: the perceptions by the five senses b. The subjective reality: mental world dominated by imagination (to arrange the chaotic information from the sensual perception)
Life
1917
1914
He and his wife moved to 210 Farmington Avenue, where he stayed for the next seven years and his first book was published.
Became the vice-president of the New York office of the Equitable Survey Company of St. Louis, Missouri.
Anecdote of the Jar
I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness, Surround that hill. The wilderness rose up to it, And sprawled around, no longer wild. The jar was round upon the ground, And tall and of a port in air. It took dominion everywhere. The jar was gray and bare. I did not give bird or bush, Like nothing else in Tennessee.
坛子趣闻
我把坛子置于田纳西州 它是远的，立在小山顶。 它使得散乱的荒野， 都以此小山为中心。 荒野全都向坛子涌来， 俯伏四周，不再荒野。 坛子圆圆的，在地上。 巍然耸立，风采非凡。 它统领四面八方， 这灰色无花纹的坛子 它不滋生鸟雀或树丛， 与田纳西的一切都不相同。
Anecdote of the Jar: A Metaphor for Human’s Existence in Nature
The poem contains a modern pastoral theme to create an existence of harmony surrounding man’s attempt to order wilderness against nature’s cyclical and incessant pattern. Tennessee wilderness, where the narrator places the jar, is an uncorrupted but slovenly nature.
Appreciation The Snow Man is a poem from Wallace Stevens’s first book of poetry, Harmonium. It was first published in 1921 and is therefore in the public domain. The poem is an expression of Stevens’ perspective, leading from a relatively objective description of a winter scene to a relatively subjective emotional response( thinking of misery in the sound of the wind), to the final idea that the listener and the world itself are “ nothing” apart from these perspectives.
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Life
1897
1879
Born in Reading, Pennsylvania
Educated at Harvard as a special non-degree student.
1903
1904
Graduated from the New York Law school.
1954
Collected Poems 《诗集》
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Hart Crane wrote to a friend in 1919, after reading some of the poems that would make up Harmonium, "There is a man whose work makes most of the rest of us quail.“
The Poetry Foundation states that "by the early 1950s Stevens was regarded as one of America's greatest contemporary poets, an artist whose precise abstractions exerted substantial influence on other writers. “
3. Hedonism: the significance on the enjoyment of sensual emotions 4. Poetry of statement: an act of faith in the sense of “nothingness” in reality
5. Simple lines: an emphasis on vocabulary and imagery rather than prosody 6. The faith in poetry: when no one believes in God, it is necessary to believe in something else, such as poetry, a thing created by imagination
Some critics, like Randall Jarrell and Yvor Winters, praised Stevens' early work but were critical of his more abstract and philosophical later poems.
Wallace Stevens
华莱士· 史蒂文斯
By B1201 任路路
华莱士· 史蒂文斯 (1879---1955)
American Modernist Poet An artist Executive for an insurance company
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Life
1955
He won the Pulitzer Prize, and he was offered a faculty positon at Harvard, but he declined since it would have required him to give up his vice-presidency of the Hartford.
The Snow Man
One must have a mind of winter 若想敬仰松树枝干 To regard the frost and the boughs 层层为霜雪覆盖， Of the pine-tree crusted with snow; 你得具备冬天的头脑。 And have been cold a long time 在寒冷中持久凝视， To behold the junipers 那冰雪蓬松的刺柏松林， Shagged with ice, 那闪烁在远处 The spruces rough in the distant glitter Of the January sun; and not to think 腊月阳光下的弥漫云杉。 Of any misery in the sound of the wind, 不要去想那风声 In the sound of a few leaves, 和树叶夹带着的凄凉。
Steven made numerous visits to Key West, Florida. The influence of the Key West upon Steven’s poetry is evident in many of the poems.
1955
Died in Hartford on August 2
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1835
Ideas of Order
《秩序的思考》
1937 The Man with
the Blue Guitar The Auroras of Autumn
1950
《弹蓝色吉他的男 人》
《秋日晨曦 》
Parts of a 1942 World
《一个世界的部分》
Which is the sound of the land 这声音是风地里的声音， Full of the same wind 这风是为在空地上的你而吹。 That is blowing in the same bare place. 在雪里聆听的人啊， For the listener, who listens in the snow, 听着于己无关的事儿， And, nothing himself, beholds 那儿不存在的东西看见 Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is. 眼里只有现存的一片空旷。
Admitted to the New York Bar, and at the same year, he met Elsie Viola Kachel, a young woman who worked as a saleswoman.
1909
After a long courtship, they got married in 1909. In the meanwhile, he turned to insurrance business
Industry and the urbanization of the American landscape had taken a stronghold by the early twentieth century. By the 1950s and 1960s, technology formed the American way of life. The union of man’s technological inventions with an American wilderness is metaphorically represented in Anecdote of the Jar.
1947 Transport to
Summer 《运输的夏》
1936 Owl's Clover
《猫头鹰的丁香》
1950
The Auroras of Autumn《秋日极光》
Fra Baidu bibliotek
1957
Opus Posthumous (1957) --诗选
Many of Stevens’s critical essays are included in The Necessary Angel 《必要的天使》
1924-1932
He resided at 735 Farmington Avenue for the remainder of his life.
1934
Became Vice president of Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company.
1922-1940