《工作是什么》的作者菲利普.莱文(Philip Levine)出生于1928年,来自美国底特律一个“蓝领”(干体力活的无产阶级)家庭,14岁就不得不到汽修厂和炼钢厂打工谋生。但他一直想当诗人,于是他一边上夜班,一边利用业余时间写诗,并用打工挣来的钱上大学,终于,1953他拿到了爱荷华大学的文学艺术硕士。 1991年,通过《工作是什...
The goal of this dissertation is to explain Philip Levine's unique perspective on work in our lives. Levine sets out to describe the difficult and dangerous conditions of the work he experienced in his various industrial jobs in and around the city of Detroit. He attempts to depict the physic...
KNOWING WHAT WORK IS: WORKING AND THE WORKPLACE IN THE POETRY OF PHILIP LEVINEBECK, JOHN P.Midwestern Miscellany
What do you do at the end of the day when you’ve finished your work and finally have some time for yourself? How you spend your free time can have a big influence on your mental health. Hobbies can help you relax and ease pent-up (被压抑的) stress caused by all that time in the...
The true poem is the poet's mind. —Ralph Waldo Emerson Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. —Stephen Spender Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. —Carl Sandburg ...
poem follows “the immediate impulse of psychic life,” (Sharma 67) then that work which seeks to control rather than discover is going to fall short for those who have moved beyond the uselessness of that impulse. Critic K.K. Sharma reminds us that Duncan believed the rational kills the ...
"You will have to work at it, and it's not going to be something that I can just tell you. The dharma, the teaching, is not owned by anybody." Buddhism has been able to spread because there was no idea that it could be owned even by a language. Certain religious lan- guages ...
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Work and workers have been the subject of poetry since at least the Middle Ages. In the prologue...Bloch, Deborah P.Blackwell Publishing Ltd.Career Development Quarterly
WHAT I CAME FORThe article presents the poem "What I Came For," by Philip Levine. First Line: And finally the sea closes; Last Line: That's it! That's it!Levine, Philipnew yorker