Thirteen Ways of Looking at A Blackbird: Deconstruction of Binary Opposition Between Imagination and Reality

Wallace Stevens is one of five greatest poets in America in 20th century. The relation between imagination and reality is a major theme of his poems. He holds the view that the mission of poets is to build a bridge linking the world of imagination and of reality with the result of deconstructing the logic of binary opposition since the time of Plato. Thirteen Ways of Looking at A Blackbird is a representative poem that expresses Wallace’s thoughts of deconstruction. This article is to probe into how the poet establishes the reality dominated by imagination and then how he deconstructs the binary opposition between imagination and reality since the time of Plato.

非正式的存在观——史蒂文斯《看黑鸟的十三种方式》疏解

美国现实主义诗歌的代表人物华莱士·史蒂文斯的早期作品《看黑鸟的十三种方式》是由十三首短诗构成。学界通常的解释根据标题的字面意思,认为诗歌描写的是观看黑鸟的十三种方式,然而依据作者的“非正式的存在观”,十三种看黑鸟的方式,应该是黑鸟在十三种不同场景中的存在方式。黑鸟在组诗里并不独自存在,而是与其他事物相互关联,与人相互作用。