庞德作品PPT 2.ppt

1. Pound’s works: Pound wrote 70 books and over 1500 articles in his life. His major work of poetry is The Cantos, a long poem which he wrote in sections between 1915 and 1959. 2. His masterpiece: The Cantos In this poem, he traces the rise and fall of eastern and western empires, the destruction caused by greed and materialism. He deplores the corruption of America after the heroic time of Jefferson, The last part, produced from his own suffering, is the most moving.;3. His poetic features: Ezra Pound is often considered as the poet who is most responsible for defining and promoting a modernist aesthetic in poetry. His critical theories have great influence on many important American and British poets. Throughout the 1920s, he was much involved in most of the major artistic movements. He was the leader of the Imagist school in poetry. He believed that good poetry was based on images rather than ideas. His technique came from classical Chinese and Japanese poetry. On one hand he stressed clarity, precision, and economy of language. On the other hand, Pound used the traditional rhyme and meter in order to, as Pound put it, “compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in the sequence of metronome”.;艾斯拉·庞德 - 经典作品Pound’s Major Literary Works ;Pound’s Major Literary Works;Pound’s Major Literary Works;A Chinese imagistic poetry: Autumn Evening crows perch on old trees wreathed with withered vine, Water of a stream flows by a family cottage near a tiny bridge. A lean horse walks on an ancient road in western breeze, The sun is setting in the west, The heart-broken one is at the end of the Earth. ;《天净沙·秋思》; In a Station of the Metro 在一个地铁车站 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。 ;诸种译文：;6．在地铁车站 这几张脸在人群中幻景般闪现； 湿漉漉的黑树枝上花瓣数点。（飞白）