Английская Википедия:Gubbinal
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Шаблон:Short description "Gubbinal" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, Harmonium (1923). It is in the public domain according to Librivox.[1]
Interpretation
It can be read as one of his "poems of epistemology", as B. J. Leggett styles it in his Nietzschean reading of Stevens' perspectivism,[2] a minimalistic statement of his interest in the relationship between imagination and the world. The term 'gubbinal' may derive from 'gubbin', slang for a dullard, referring here to someone who takes the world to be ugly and the people sad.[3]
Notes
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web Excerpted from Leggett, Early Stevens: The Nietzschean Intertext, 1992, Duke University Press.
- ↑ Nicholson, p. 23: "In somewhat arcane slang 'gubbin' means what it sounds like, a dull person --- the 'you' who insists on the sad ugliness of the world."
References
- Leggett, B.J. Early Stevens: The Nietzchean Intertext. 1982: Duke UP.
- Nicholson, Mervyn. "Reading Stevens' Riddles." College English, Vol. 50, No. 1. (Jan., 1988), pp. 13–31.
- Peterson, Margaret. Wallace Stevens and the idealist tradition. 1983: UMI Research Press
