The Machine Avant-garde in the Poetry of William Carlos Williams

• 발행기관: 한국영미어문학회
• 저자명: Jin Ho Shim(심호진)
• 간행물 정보: 『영미어문학』영미어문학 제94호, 29~51쪽, 전체 23쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2010.03.30

영문 초록

Throughout his entire works, Williams often shows his preoccupation with machine technology. He emphasizes that the poet in the machine age should be an “" engineer" or "artisan," as “" a poem is a machine made of words" to integrate art and technology simultaneously. Significantly, the themes and images on machine technology in his work are always associated with the Avant-garde arts, especially, Precisionism. Through continuous relationship with Precisionist artists such as Charles Demuth and Charles Sheeler, Williams' interest in the ideas and achievements of machine aesthetics and indigenous American things are firmly constructed Most importantly, Williams’' machine aesthetics are indivisibly related to speed and movement. The notion of speed and movement in Williams works is so immense that it is almost impossible to analyze Williams’ poetry without understanding it. In fact, almost all of the poems on machine technology clearly reveal the kinetic expressions such as "moving" and "running." It is not surprising that his poetry visually implies the cinematic quality derived from the kinetic imagination. Thus, through wide-ranging experiments with the machine Avant-garde, Williams could create the new poetry which suggests the distinctively American poetics.

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키워드

Williams machine technology Avant-garde arts Precisionist Demuth Sheeler