Abstract:Hugh MacDiarmid and Charles Tomlinson certainly make strange bedfellows for a comparative study, yet by placing MacDiarmid's "Third Hymn to Lenin" in dialogue with Tomlinson's poems "Prometheus" and "Assassin," written in opposition to the Russian Revolution, a common approach to the question of poetry's social efficacy emerges. The central issue in these works is not superficial expression of political allegiance. Instead, I demonstrate an affirmation of poetry as "a way of happening," whereby poetic form functions as a means of rehearsing the principles by which a better world can be built.

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排练更美好的世界：诗歌作为汤姆林森和麦克迪尔米德作品中的一种发生方式

摘要：休·麦克迪尔米德和查尔斯·汤姆林森在比较研究中当然是奇怪的搭档，但将麦克迪尔米德的《列宁第三赞歌》与汤姆林森为反对俄国革命而写的诗《普罗米修斯》和《刺客》进行对话，这是一种常见的做法诗歌的社会效力问题就出现了。这些作品的核心问题不是政治忠诚的表面表达。相反，我证明诗歌是“一种发生的方式”，其中诗歌形式作为一种排练原则的手段，通过这些原则可以建立一个更美好的世界。