Chinese poetry has exerted a great influence on American modernist poets,especially on William Carlos Williams(1883-1963).William Carlos Williams’The Widow’s Lament in Springtime shares some connections with Chinese...Chinese poetry has exerted a great influence on American modernist poets,especially on William Carlos Williams(1883-1963).William Carlos Williams’The Widow’s Lament in Springtime shares some connections with Chinese Boudoir poems in theme,image,and technique.This paper tends to discuss the influence of Chinese Boudoir poems on William Carlos Williams based on his creating of The Widow’s Lament in Springtime,which provides a new perspective for studying the communication of Chinese and American poetry.展开更多
This paper focuses on the theme of nature and childhood as represented in and before modern Chinese literature1 and 19th century English literature.Compared with Chinese literature,childhood and nature awareness in En...This paper focuses on the theme of nature and childhood as represented in and before modern Chinese literature1 and 19th century English literature.Compared with Chinese literature,childhood and nature awareness in English literature is not only produced later,but also interwoven with a more complicated political and historical background.A study of Chinese and English modern literature shows that China has historically favored spiritually over materialism,its agrarian roots only recently giving way to industrialization.England,on the other hand,has had to learn painful lessons from industrialization in order to recover its long-lost self.Though the notions of nature and childhood in modern Chinese and English literature have their roots in Chinese and Western classical philosophies,which can be traced back respectively to Taoism and Platonism,it has taken centuries for modern English literature to become keenly and fully aware of that and try to restore this primordial fact.展开更多
文摘Chinese poetry has exerted a great influence on American modernist poets,especially on William Carlos Williams(1883-1963).William Carlos Williams’The Widow’s Lament in Springtime shares some connections with Chinese Boudoir poems in theme,image,and technique.This paper tends to discuss the influence of Chinese Boudoir poems on William Carlos Williams based on his creating of The Widow’s Lament in Springtime,which provides a new perspective for studying the communication of Chinese and American poetry.
文摘This paper focuses on the theme of nature and childhood as represented in and before modern Chinese literature1 and 19th century English literature.Compared with Chinese literature,childhood and nature awareness in English literature is not only produced later,but also interwoven with a more complicated political and historical background.A study of Chinese and English modern literature shows that China has historically favored spiritually over materialism,its agrarian roots only recently giving way to industrialization.England,on the other hand,has had to learn painful lessons from industrialization in order to recover its long-lost self.Though the notions of nature and childhood in modern Chinese and English literature have their roots in Chinese and Western classical philosophies,which can be traced back respectively to Taoism and Platonism,it has taken centuries for modern English literature to become keenly and fully aware of that and try to restore this primordial fact.
