ABSTRACT

Where Water Comes Together with Other Water is a collection of poems published by Raymond Carver in 1985. As the aquatic title suggests, many of these poems feature rivers and creeks.

The aim of my contribution is to analyse the function of rivers in Carver’s poetry, pointing out how their presence is not only part of a confessional tendency. They are also part of an epiphanic kind of poetic that uses small incidents and natural elements as correlative objectives. That is what rivers are within this collection: correlative objectives of distant and buried memories, of fears, of love, of ageing, of a way of looking at the external world, to say it with Carver’s words, ‘in absolute and simple amazement’.

摘要

水与其他水汇合的地方是雷蒙德·卡佛（Raymond Carver）于1985年出版的诗集。正如水生动物的标题所暗示的那样，这些诗中许多都带有河流和小溪的特征。

我的贡献是分析卡弗诗歌中的河流功能，指出河流的存在不仅是a悔趋势的一部分。它们也是一种短暂的诗意形式的一部分，这种诗意的事物以小事件和自然元素为相关目标。那就是河流中的河流：遥远而隐秘的记忆，恐惧，爱，衰老，看待外部世界的方式的相关目标，用卡弗的话说，“绝对而简单地惊奇” 。