ezra-pound李白《长干行》英文翻译PPT课件.ppt

The River-Merchants wife: a Letter Translated by Ezra Pound from Li Bais Chang Gan Xing A Brife Introduction about the two Poets About the Poem The River-Merchants Wife: A Letter was published in 1915 in Ezra Pounds thrid collection of poetry, Cathay: Translations, which contians poems composed from the sixteen notebooks of Ernest Fenollosa, a scholar of Chinese literature. Chang Gan, a village in present day Jiangning County, Jiangsu Provence, which is near Yangtze River. Chang Gan Xing is actually a tune name in Yue Fu,a poem collection back to Han Dynasty. Different tune name has different form. Normally Chang Gan Xing is composed with four sentences and each sentence contains five chinese characters. But Li Bai extended it to 30 sentences, but still five words a sentence. This poem was the self-narrative of a merchants wife. It was divided to 5 stanzas acrroding to the emotional changes of hers. Each stanza shows an aspect of our heroines life. And actually Li Bai had wrote two pieces of poems in the title of Chang Gan Xing, but compared to the one we are going to study, the second piece is a little bit plain and not as well-known as the frist piece. * Li Bai (701-762) Li Bai is widely regarded as the greatest romantic poet in the chinese history. He was a commanding figure in Tang Dynasty and his poems are mainly about sights of nature and his own personal feeling, which are full of imagination and splendid. He is often called the god of poem and also had a profound influence in chinese literature. Quite a lot great poets inspired by him wrote poems to compliment his talent and show their respect due to his immortal achievements to literature. Ezra Pound(1885-1972) Ezar Pound, a famous American poet, who helped to affect the change from the tired sentimental vagueness of late Victorian literature to the charged experimentalism of modernism, decisively affected the course of twentieth-century American literature. He influenced the car