投射派诗歌的代表罗伯特·克里利认为语言首先不应指称它物,而应自足地存在。他的这一语言观传承了庞德、威廉斯、朱可夫斯基等前辈对语言自身物理特征的观点,但他摈除了通过意象来表达意义的做法,使语言脱离实物而指向自身。克里利的语言观对后来的语言派诗人产生了重要的影响。语言派诗人在理论方面继承了克里利“语言即事物”的观点,在实践中也沿用了克里利的许多手法。但语言派诗人在发掘语言的自足性方面,比克里利更为极端,他们试图切断语言和现实的联系,他们的诗歌也因此而更加自足,更加晦涩难懂。 Robert Creelli, the representative of the cast poetry, believes that language should not, at first, denote it, but should be self-sufficient. His view of language inherits the viewpoints of his predecessors such as Pound, Williams, and Zhukovsky on the physical characteristics of language itself. However, he rejects the practice of expressing meaning through imagery and makes the language point out to itself instead of the object. Creeley’s linguistic view has an important influence on later linguistic poets. Linguistic poets in theory inherited Creole “language that things” point of view, in practice, also followed many of Creole techniques. But linguistic poets are more extreme than Korili in exploring the language’s self-sufficiency. They try to cut off the connection between language and reality, and their poetry is therefore more self-sufficient and more obscure.