Having said that, funny I was talking to somebody the other day who works for the Academy of American Poets.
有一天很巧,我遇到了一个朋友,她在美国诗人协会工作。
and many of the anonymous poets from the old English period that I studied in my graduate school days.
还有许多我在大学里学过的古英语时期的匿名诗人。
It's a poem which begins, "I have heard that hysterical women say they are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow, of poets that are always gay..."
诗的开头写道,我曾听见歇斯底里的女人们说,她们厌恶调色板和提琴弓,厌恶那些永远快乐的诗人们“
Eliot was there, in that essay on the metaphysical poets that I'm quoting from, defending as necessary what is the primary characteristic, not only of his own poetry, but really of modern poetry generally, what is often called its difficulty.
艾略特在描写那些抽象派诗人的文章里,就是我引用的那篇,极力维护,诗人的首要特征,不仅是因为他自身的诗性,更因为维护现代诗歌的必要,这是非常困难的一件事。
Now, one of the things the Greeks believed, as we discover from a poem written by one of their major poets, is something so far as I know unique to the Greeks.
在希腊的一位大诗人的一首诗中,我们发现了他们所信奉的一件事情,据我所知,这一点是希腊所特有的
When Plato writes his Republic and devotes Book Ten, as I'm sure most of you know, to an argument in effect banishing the poets from the ideal republic, part of the argument is that poets are terrible imitators.
当柏拉图写《理想国》和《第十卷》的时候,你们肯定都听过这两部著作,他提出了一个一个论点,要把诗人从理想国中驱逐出境,他提到,诗人都是拙劣的仿造者。
So defamiliarization, against the backdrop of a kind of gray uniformity that Jakobson in his essay on byt "The Generation that Squandered its Poets" called "byt"-- I don't know how to pronounce that.
陌生化所针对的,灰色一致性,正如雅各布森在他的论文,浪费诗人的时代中提到的,称为-,我不知道这个词怎么发音。
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