文档介绍:论威廉·卡洛斯·威廉姆斯诗歌中的后现代写作技巧
 
 
Zhang Yingting
(Guangdong Institite of Science and Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong,ance, participation; constructionism; immanence.[1]168-172
In literature, fragmentation is a broad term for literary techniques that break up the text or narrative. For example, in “The Locust Tree in Flower” : among/of /green// stiff/ old/ bright// broken/ branch/ come //white/ sweet/ May// again//” (Williams 1969, 68), each word has a line to itself. It influences people’s traditional understanding about poetry. Again, Williams pays no attention to logical, grammatical and syntactic rules in purpose. If the fragmentary words are viewed separately, meanings can hardly be interpreted. By destroying the fluency of the poem, it creates strangeness, intervals and even shock to some extent. The sudden awareness of the coming of May is expressed in this way.
What’s more, in “Between Walls”: “the back wings / of the //hospital where /nothing //will grow lie /cinders //in which shine /the broken //pieces of a green /bottle //”[2]84, Williams challenges the traditional form of poetry in form, grammar and syntax, which evoke a fragmented impression. In traditional poems, the first letter of each line has to be capitalized. But this rule is not followed in “Between Walls”. All the first letters of each line is lowercased. No punctuation is used. The whole poem is composed of only one sentence. The lines are not broken into syntactical units.
Besides, Williams puts together three apparently unrelated and separate images (. the back wings of the hospital, cinders, and the broken pieces of a green bottle) which may arouse senses of ambiguity and isolation when the poem is first read.
Similarly, the features mentioned above can also been found in “The Red Wheelbarrow”[2]30: “so much depends /upon //a red wheel /barrow //glazed with rain /water //beside the white /chickens.//”. The poem consists of one sentence which is split into four stanzas. No letters