The Expressby Stephen Spender After the first powerful plain manifestoThe black statement of pistons, without more fussBut gliding like a queen, she leaves the station.Without bowing and with restrained unconcernShe passes the houses which humbly crowd outside,The gasworks and at last the heavy...
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斯蒂芬·司班德 (Stephen Spender,1909-1995 )英国三十年代左翼作家,与奥登齐名。 诗歌集有《静止中心》(The Still Centre)(1939年)、《废墟与憧憬》(Ruins and Visions)(1942年)、《奉献集》(Poems of Dedication)(1947年)、《三十及其之后》(The Thirties and After)(1978年)、《中国日记》(1983年)、《日记...
hall. The poem is typical of Spender insofar as it showcases his sympathies for the poor and destitute. The poem is not passive in the face of this suffering, but instead functions as acritiqueof the rich and powerful by reminding the reader they have allowed suffering to exist in ...
Sir Stephen Spender was an English poet and critic, who made his reputation in the 1930s with poems expressing the politically conscience-stricken, leftist “new writing” of that period. A nephew of the Liberal journalist and biographer J.A. Spender, he