What happens to those resources that the great modernist writers endowed language with so powerfully earlier in the century?

本世纪早期,杰出的现代主义作家们如此给力,地赋予语言一些资源？

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I like it because it's a kind of image of the modern city that makes the modern city look like language, look like letters, look like a kind of scattered alphabet, a kind of babble.

我喜欢它是因为它呈现出了一幅现代城市的图画,使得城市看起来像语言一样，像字母一样，像打乱分散的字母表一样，像模糊不清的牙牙耳语。

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It's a kind of picture for me of the linguistic environment, if you will, of modern poetry.

对我来说，如果你愿意这样想的话，这就是现代诗歌语言环境的一幅图画。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

There's an extraordinary sense of verbal chaos, a kind of word hoard that modern poetry and modernism -generally, a kind of linguistic environment of great complexity from which modern poetry and modernism emerge.

这里关于口头言论的混乱有一种独特的理解，关于现代诗歌和现代性的隐藏理解,总之，是一种关于语言环境的庞大复杂性的理解,现代诗歌和现代性即是由此产生发展。

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