《英美文学教学资料》Ezra Pound.pptVIP

Modernism(early 20thC-mid 20thC) the irrational, private, subjective; the psychological, the spiritual, the abnormal; the inner being, the psychic time, chaos; free experimentation on new forms and new techniques in literary creation; fragmentation, discontinuity, literary montage, juxtaposition, and the frenetic inter-penetration of passage to suggest a disordered simultaneity. Ezra Pound (1885-1972) A leading spokesman of the Imagist Movement, One of the most influential American poets of the 20th C. Three Principles of Imagism direct treatment of poetic subjects, elimination of merely ornamental or superfluous words, rhythmical composition in the sequence of the musical phrase rather than in the sequence of a metronome (节拍器). His Style aimed at simplicity and detachment in poetic expression by the clear presentation of visual images. defined image as that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time. use of fresh images, myth and personae, oblique yet marvelously compressed language; dense with personal, literary, and historical allusions; lacking in syntactic structure and summary statements. Major Works The Cantos Pisan Cantos Personae Hugh Selwyn Nauberley Make It New Literary Essays The ABC of Reading. In a Station of the Metro A typical imagist poem that fully displays the imagistic principles. This poem retells a moment in a Paris metro station when the poet was struck by the sight of the faces of some pretty women and innocent children in a crowd. This scene was instantaneous (瞬间的)and so were the poets emotions. Chinese Versions 人群里这些脸忽然闪现；花丛在一条湿黑的树枝。（流沙河） 人群中，这些面孔的鬼影； 潮湿的黑树枝上的花瓣。 （余光中） 众中梦幻身影，黝湿枝头疏花。（吴其尧） 人群中的脸蛋似幽灵般隐现，一根湿漉漉黑枝上的花瓣。 Study questions What is specific in the form and sound of the poem? the haiku form of Japanese 3-line,17 syllable and where the title is an integral part of the whole Assonance: station/apparition； Metro/petals/wet； Half rhyme: crowd/bough. What two images are juxtaposed,