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20th-century American Poets (I) Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972) Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972) a primary supporter of other modernist writers, including T. S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams and James Joyce influenced by Chinese and Japanese poetry leading the Imagist Movement of poetry For the imagists, the most effective way to express the momentary impression is through one dominant image, or a quick succession of related images. In a Station of the Metro The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. 人群中幽然浮现的一张张脸庞， 黝黑的湿树枝上的一片片花瓣。 The word “apparition”, with its double meaning, binds the two aspects of the observation together: Apparition meaning “appearance”, in the sense of something which appears; something which can be clearly observed. Apparition meaning something ghostly which cannot be clearly observed. the sense of sight (colorful picture implied by petals; “black” ) the sense of touch－ “wet” the beauty of music through it’s repetition of different vowels and consonants, such as /p/ and /au/. Especially the repetition of /e/ in the second line emphasize it’s sense of music. William Carlos Williams1883-1963 The Red Wheelbarrow The Red Wheelbarrow so much dependsupon a red wheelbarrow glazed with rainwater beside the whitechickens. William Carlos Williams “So much depends upon the red wheel barrow” The red wheel barrow: An important tool for the farmer A pleasurable poetic device The possibility of an American way of life A colorful and vivid picture The combination of the animate (barrow, water) and the inanimate (chickens) The contrast The red color － the white color “glazed” It is the only word in the poem that can be said to carry an aesthetic meaning, because it transforms the wheelbarrow into an object of aesthetic contemplation. Robert Frost Something universal, about death and life, love and hate, war and peace, the good and the evil, is what he mostly writes. Therefore, he is