Moral Support

IF 0.2 4区 文学 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM
S. Rhodes, K. Sutherland
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Abstract:This short essay was written in response to an invitation to speak at a symposium at the Royal College of Art in London in November 2018. The poem presented here, “Starting from low the light ascends in a single slow movement,” was, at the time when this essay was written, one section of a lyric in seven parts, all of it in roughly accentual heptameter tercets. The poem had the title “Moral Support,” or anyhow, I thought so; but the verses ended up taking a different turn, out of that poem and into another, and they now belong elsewhere. The poem “Moral Support” never made it into the world. Some of it was let go, but the bulk of it was redistributed, either intact or in pieces, into the first three poems of my book Scherzos Benjyosos. The eight tercets presented here can be found in scherzo number 3—twice, almost. A number of revisions were made, of a more or less emendatory or even explicitly redemptive character. The poem presented in this essay, the one that was stuck into Stephen G. Rhodes’s room full of the detritus of a violated childhood, ended up being a hoarded text, withheld from circulation—until now. This essay, conceived at the time as a space of reflection and reminiscence in which the poem would momentarily repose, or a space that it would visit before making its way in the world as a completed poetic work, has instead turned out to be the ironic reliquary of a poem that never got out.
精神支持
摘要:这篇短文是应2018年11月在伦敦皇家艺术学院的一次研讨会上的演讲邀请而写的。在写这篇文章的时候,这里呈现的诗“从低处开始,光线以一个缓慢的动作上升”是一首由七个部分组成的抒情诗的一部分,所有这些都是大致重音的七米三分音符。这首诗的标题是“道德支持”,或者无论如何,我是这么认为的;但这些诗句最终发生了不同的转折,从那首诗变成了另一首诗,它们现在属于其他地方。《道德支持》这首诗从未出现在世界上。其中一部分被放弃了,但大部分被重新分配,要么完好无损,要么支离破碎,成为我的书《谐谑曲》的前三首诗。这里给出的八个tercet可以在谐谑曲第3首中找到——几乎两次。进行了一些修订,或多或少具有修正性,甚至明确具有救赎性质。这篇文章中呈现的这首诗,被粘在斯蒂芬·G·罗德斯的房间里,房间里堆满了童年被侵犯的碎屑,最终变成了一本囤积的文本,直到现在都没有发行。这篇文章在当时被认为是一个反思和回忆的空间,诗歌将在其中短暂休息,或者在作为一部完整的诗歌作品进入世界之前,它将访问这个空间,但事实证明,它是一首从未问世的诗歌的讽刺性圣品箱。
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