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• It is a hybrid work consisting of alternating sections of prose and free verse. It might best be understood as a manifesto of the imagination. The prose passages are a dramatic, energetic and often cryptic series of statements about the ways in which language can be renewed in such a way that it does not describe the world but recreates it.
Spring and All
By William Carlos Williams
By the road to the contagious hospital under the surge of the blue mottled clouds driven from the northeast—a cold wind. Beyond, the waste of broad, muddy fields brown with dried weeds, standing and fallen
去传染病院的路上 冷风——从东北方向 赶来蓝斑点点的 汹涌层云。远处， 一片泥泞的荒野 野草枯黄，有立有伏
一潭潭的死水 偶见几丛大树 沿路尽是灌木 小树，半紫半红 枝桠丛丛纠结 下面是枯黄的叶子 无叶的藤——
patches of standing water the scattering of where he sustained his
medical practice throughout his life, Williams
began publishing in small magazines and
embarked on a prolific career as a poet, novelist,
High School, at which time he made the decision
to become both a writer and a doctor. He
received his MD from the University of
Pennsylvania, where he met and befriended
The Uses Of Poetry - Poem by William Carlos Williams
I've fond anticipation of a day O'erfilled with pure diversion presently, For I must read a lady poesy The while we glide by many a leafy bay,
（赵毅衡译）
• Written just a short time after the Dial published T. S. Eliot‘s "The Waste Land," a poem that also begins with the late coming of spring, Williams’s version is more idiomatic, more grounded in American colloquialisms and style. Spring and All also includes the famous poem "The Red Wheelbarrow.” Much anthologized as the archetypal poem of Imagism, the weight of this brief poem rests entirely on the careful description of the thing itself, the actual wheelbarrow, which is not a symbol for anything, but simply exists as it is. The volume also includes "To Elsie," a famous lyric, which begins “The pure products of America / go crazy.”
• Spring and All created a new kind of American lyric, with attention toward natural, idiomatic language, sharply observed images, unusual syntax and enjambment, and abbreviated, carefully wrought lines. In his great long poem Paterson, Williams later wrote, “No ideas but in things," which was taken as a kind of manifesto by his admirers.
Ezra Pound is generally
considered the poet most responsible for defining and promoting a modernist aesthetic in poetry.
In the early teens of the twentieth century, he opened a seminal exchange of work and ideas between British and American writers.
All along the road the reddish purplish, forked, upstanding, twiggy stuff of bushes and small trees with dead, brown leaves under them leafless vines—
• Imagist movement name given to a movement in poetry, originating in 1912 and represented by Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell, and others, aiming at clarity of expression through the use of precise visual images. In the early period often written in the French form Imagisme.
For, lest o'ersaddened by such woes as spring To rural peace from our meek onward trend, What else more fit? We'll draw the latch-string
And close the door of sense; then satiate wend, On poesy's transforming giant wing, To worlds afar whose fruits all anguish mend.
Ezra Pound.
• Pound became a great influence on his writing, and in 1913 arranged for the London publication of Williams’s second collection, The Tempers.
Lifeless in appearance, sluggish dazed spring approaches— They enter the new world naked, cold, uncertain of all save that they enter. All about them the cold, familiar wind— Now the grass, tomorrow the stiff curl of wild carrot leaf One by one objects are defined— It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf But now the stark dignity of entrance—Still, the profound change has come upon them: rooted they grip down and begin to awaken
His major works
• Kora in Hell (1920) • Spring and All (1923) • Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems (1962) • the five-volume epic Paterson (1963, 1992) • Imaginations (1970).
William Carlos Williams
• On September 17, 1883, William Carlos Williams was born in Rutherford, New Jersey. He began writing poetry while a student at Horace Mann
essayist, and playwright.
• Following Pound, he was one of the principal poets of the Imagist movement, though as time went on, he began to increasingly disagree with the values put forth in the work of Pound and especially Eliot, who he felt were too attached to European culture and traditions. Continuing to experiment with new techniques of meter and lineation, Williams sought to invent an entirely fresh—and singularly American—poetic, whose subject matter was centered on the everyday circumstances of life and the lives of common people.
Hid deep in rushes, where at random play The glossy black winged May-flies, or whence flee Hush-throated nestlings in alarm, Whom we have idly frighted with our boat's long sway.
看来毫无生命，倦怠不堪 而莽撞的春天来临—— 他们赤裸地进入新世界 全身冰凉，什么都不明白 只知道他们在进入春天。而周围 依然是熟悉的寒风—— 瞧这些草，明天 野胡萝卜那坚挺的卷叶 一件一件请清楚楚—— 越来越快：明晰，这叶子的轮廓 可是在此刻．进入春天 依然那么艰难——然而深沉的变化 已经来到：它们扎住的根 往下紧攫，开始醒来