华莱士·史蒂文斯的诗学探索和诗歌创作已经成为诗歌传统的一部分,他在现代派诗人中独树一帜的风格和他的诗人观密切相关。他坚持精英主义的诗人观,认为诗人的功用即唤醒和扩展人们的想象力,为社会创造和保存审美价值,而且诗人的功用只能通过诗歌实现。以《哈瓦那的学术谈话》为例,可见史蒂文斯对诗人“功用”的探讨是围绕对现实、神话、宗教以及诗歌传统的反思进行的,并始终着眼于具体创作问题。 Wallace Stevens’s poetic exploration and poetry writing have become part of the tradition of poetry. His unique style among the modernist poets is closely related to his view of the poet. He insisted on elitism poet view, that the poet’s function is to awaken and expand people’s imagination, create and save the aesthetic value of society, and the poet’s function can only be achieved through poetry. Taking “Havana’s Academic Conversation” as an example, we can see that Stevens’s discussion of the poet “Function ” is based on the reflection on the reality, mythology, religion and poetry tradition, and always focuses on the specific creation issues.