In the poem“Asides on the Oboe,”Wallace Stevens depicts a world rife with war,chaos,and a lack of faith,where old fictions no longer hold credibility,and it is time to create a new one.By crafting“the central man”...In the poem“Asides on the Oboe,”Wallace Stevens depicts a world rife with war,chaos,and a lack of faith,where old fictions no longer hold credibility,and it is time to create a new one.By crafting“the central man”as an embodiment of poetic fiction,Stevens argues for the possibility that poetry can bring poetic redemption to people in this era of war and crisis of faith.The frequent use of imagery,allusion,and other techniques in the poem together constitute the deep connotations of the text,reflecting Stevens’s equal attention to the aesthetics of poetry and humanism.展开更多
文摘In the poem“Asides on the Oboe,”Wallace Stevens depicts a world rife with war,chaos,and a lack of faith,where old fictions no longer hold credibility,and it is time to create a new one.By crafting“the central man”as an embodiment of poetic fiction,Stevens argues for the possibility that poetry can bring poetic redemption to people in this era of war and crisis of faith.The frequent use of imagery,allusion,and other techniques in the poem together constitute the deep connotations of the text,reflecting Stevens’s equal attention to the aesthetics of poetry and humanism.
