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PART ⅤTWENTIETH-CENTURY LITERATURE 1914-nowadays The historical and socio-cultural background of the American literature between the two World Wars: (1) The two World Wars (2) Marxism (3) Freudianism (4) European modern art (5)The expatriate movement The historical and socio-cultural background of the American literature after the World War Ⅱ: the dropping of an atomic bomb over Hiroshima in Japan the Cold War the Korean War the Vietnam War The assassination of John F. Kennedy, and of Martin Luther King the Water-Gate scandal American literature between the two world wars The Imagist Movement Led by the American poet Ezra Pound, Imagist Movement is a poetic movement that flourished in the U.S. and England between 1909-1917. It advances modernism in arts which concentrates on reforming the medium of poetry as opposed to Romanticism, especially Tennysons worldliness and high-flown language in poetry. Pound endorsed three main principles as guidelines for Imagism, including direct treatment of poetic subjects, elimination of merely ornamental or superfluous words, and rhythmical composition should be composed with the phrasing of music, not a metronome. The primary Imagist objective is to avoid rhetoric and moralizing, to stick closely to the object or experience being described, and to move from explicit generalization. The leading poets are Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, D.H.Lawrence, etc. the artistic characteristics of imagist poems The characteristic products of the movement are more easily recognized than its theories defined; they tend to be short, composed of short lines of musical cadence rather than metrical regularity, to avoid abstraction, and to treat the image with a hard, clear precision rather than with overt symbolic intent. The influence of Japanese forms, tanka and haiku, is obvious in many. Most of the imagist poets wrote in free verse and they like to emply common speech. They stressed the freedom in the choice of subject matter and