诗人写诗人一定是别具慧眼的。尽管不一定像传记家那么全面,那么准确,但往往会抓住被人们忽略了的细节,这些细节对研究被描写对象的生平不一定有多大用处,但对展示他的性格特征却可能颇有帮助。诗人罗伯特·洛厄尔在1970年出版了一本题为《笔记本》的诗集。在这本集子里,有着“关于当前事件的诗节穿插着对历史的类型和类比的沉思”(丹尼尔·霍夫曼:《诗歌:现代主义之后》)。诗人不仅写了一系列历史人物,还写到一些今人,包括我们熟悉的诗人,如艾略特和庞德。顺便提一句,这个集子里的诗都是用十四行诗的形式写成,当然较之严格的十四行诗要自由些,诗人通过日记般的记叙,对日常细节的捕捉,以及突如其来的跳跃和联想,使我们 Poets poets must be discerning. Although not necessarily as comprehensive and accurate as a biographer, it often captures the neglected details that are not necessarily useful for studying the life of an object being depicted, but may be quite characteristic of the personality help. In 1970, poet Robert Lowell published a collection of poems titled “Notebook.” In this episode, there is a “meditation on the type and analogy of history” by stanzas about the current events “(Daniel Hoffman:” Poetry: After Modernism "). The poet not only wrote a series of historical figures, but also wrote a number of modern people, including the poets we are familiar with, such as Eliot and Pound. Incidentally, the poems in this collection are all written in the form of sonnets, which are certainly more free than the strict sonnets. The poet’s diary-like narration, the capture of everyday details, and the unexpected Jump and associate to make us