黑山派和Robertcreeley解析課件

1、The Black Mountain Poets & Robert CreeleyDannie The Black Mountain Poets Brief IntroductionThe Black Mountan is one of the three leading schools and the most influential poetic genres in contemporary American poetry. The Black Mountain poets, sometimes called projectivist poets, were a group of mid-

2、20th century American avant-garde or postmodern poets centered on Black Mountain College.The rise was in the early 1950s, and the major poets included Charles Olson, Denise Levertov, Robert Ducan and Robert Creeley. Black Mountain CollegeIt was found in the 1930s as a liberal educational center.It w

3、as near Asheville, North Carolina.In the 1950s it became a focus for all dissidents in arts, literature, and matters of academic interest in general.Its life was short that it closed in 1957 after only 24 years.It was experimental by nature and committed to an interdisciplinary approach, attracting

4、a faculty that included many of Americas leading visual artists, composers, poets, and designers.7/30/20223Black Mountain CollegeBlack Mountain College inculcated an informal and collaborative spirit and over its lifetime attracted a venerable roster of instructors. Some of the innovations, relation

5、ships, and unexpected connections formed at Black Mountain would prove to have a lasting influence on and make the significant addition to contemporary American literature.7/30/20224 The Black Mountain Poets Main FeaturesTransfer the energy from poems to readers; Reject all the “formal” order (form

6、is no more than an extension of the content); Advocate “writing fast”;Elevate the concepts of spontaneity and colloquialism;More radical;Try to free poets from the dependence of history;Emphasize the existence consciousnessThe Principal figure Robert CreeleyLifeOpinion about PoemsMaster WorksAppreci

7、ation LifeCreeley was born in Arlington, Massachusetts and grew up inActon. He was raised by his mother with one sister, Helen. At the age of four, he lost his left eye. He entered Harvard Universityin 1943, but left to serve in theAmerican Field ServiceinBurmaand India in 19441945. He returned to H

8、arvard in 1946, but eventually took his BA fromBlack Mountain Collegein 1955. He edited the Black Mountain Review;He published widely in the 1950s, became famous in the sixties, and has been teaching at some universities. He began his career as a staunch member of the Black Mountain group.7/30/20227

9、Opinions about PoemsFull agree with “ no ideas but in things” & “and tendency to abstract general statement is a greased slide”;“formal” order could no longer be assumed as a necessary virtue, and that form is no more than an extension of the content;His literary credo is clearly that of open form;7

10、/30/20228 Writing FeaturesTake daily experiences as its subject matter (love, marriage, the intricacies of relationships, human ties between individuals of the two sexes);Colloquial & conversational;Be the simplest of the group & of the new verse in general (minimal);His strength is his subtle handi

11、ng of metaphors; suggestive; his poetry connotes superbly at its best. Master WorksLife & Death(1998)Echoes(1994)Selected Poems(1991)Windows(1990)Memory Gardens(1986)Mirrors(1983)The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975(1982)Later: New Poems(1979)A Day Book(1972)Pieces(1968)The Charm: Early

12、and Uncollected Poems(1968)Words(1967)For Love : Poems (1962) I Know A ManAs I sd to myfriend, because I amalways talking,-John, I sd, which was not hisname, the darkness sur-rounds us, whatcan we do againstit, or else, shall we&why not, buy a goddamn big car,drive, he sd, forchrists sake, lookout w

13、here yr going正如我對(duì)朋友說(shuō)，因?yàn)槲铱偸窃谡f(shuō)話約翰，我說(shuō)，那其實(shí)不是他的名字，黑暗把我們包圍，我們做什么來(lái)反抗呢，或者去買(mǎi)輛該死的大轎車(chē)吧，為什么不，開(kāi)吧，他說(shuō)，看在上帝的份上，留神你往哪里開(kāi)。7/30/202211 I Know A ManThe two friends are different in intellect and mindset and that they represent the two broad segments of humanity: the physical and practical; the philosophical and the idea

14、listic;One is awake and aware, and the other lives in a stupor;Two conflicting positions: whether to solve the existential despair by escaping from the world by buying a goddamn big car or by paying a greater attention to what is immediately in front of him;The postmodern problem of identity crisis

15、and loss of direction in the life of the modern Americans; The abbreviation;It is also concerned with an essential human problem: how to cast light on the darkness which surrounds us, how to “run order through chaos”O(jiān)h NoIf you wander far enoughyou will come to itand when you get therethey will give you a place to sitfor yourself only, in a nice chair,and all your friends will be there with smiles on their facesand they will likewise all have places如果你漂泊的夠遠(yuǎn)你終會(huì)去到那里你到了那里之后他們會(huì)騰個(gè)地方讓你坐一張好椅子，只給你一個(gè)人，而你所有的朋友都會(huì)在那里臉上掛著微笑同你一樣都有一席之地。Oh NoThe poem assumes the significance of an ind