王媛媛 Ezra Pound.pptVIP

The life of Pound born in Hailey, Idaho grew up and was educated mainly in Pennsylvania. In 1901 at the age of 15, he entered the University of Pennsylvania two years later ,transferred to Hamilton College the University of Pennsylvania In 1908 he moved to Europe, living first in Venice but eventually settling in London. Pound self-published A Lume Spento 《灯火熄灭之时》 , his first published collection of short poems, while living in Venice. In the years before the World War I, Pound was largely responsible for the appearance of Imagism（意象主义）, and coined the name of the movement Vorticism（漩涡派） Ezra married the artist Dorothy Shakespear in 1914. In 1920, he moves to Paris, then settled in Italy in 1924. During the second World War ,he leaned in the direction of Mussolini’s fascist totalitarianism（极权主义） having made anti-American radio broadcasts, he was arrested as a traitor（叛国者） in 1945 . sent to the US, where he was deemed mentally unfit to stand trial for treason. Pound was confined for 12 years in a hospital (actually prison) for the criminally insane in Washington. During this time he translated works of ancient Greek and ancient Chinese literature . While in prison ,he was awarded a prestigious poetry prize in 1949 for his last Cantos. In 1958 he returned to Italy,where he continued to write and make translations until he died in 1972. In a Station of the Metro 庞德最著名的作品，要属意象派名作《在地铁站内》： In a Station of the Metro The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. 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） 人潮中这些面容的忽现； 湿巴巴的黑树丫上的花瓣。（罗池） 人群中幻影般浮现的脸 潮湿的，黑色树枝上的花瓣（钟鲲） 人群中，这些面孔的鬼影； 潮湿的黑树枝上的花瓣。（余光中） 人群里这些脸忽然闪现； 花丛在一条湿黑的树枝。（流沙河） 《在地铁站内》仅两行、14个字，是一首单一意象诗（one-image poem）。它是庞德根据在巴黎协和广场地铁站的印象写成的。诗虽短，但诗人最后落笔定稿前经过相当一段时间的酝酿和推敲。 在地铁站庞德眼前闪过一张张美丽的脸。在归途中，这些脸在他眼前反复出现，直到最后他们逐渐变成了一片片彩色印花色底。这时他产生了一个念头，要作出一幅纯粹表现色彩的斑斑点点的非写实主义的画，但他不会作画，只能以诗代之。诗的两行互相依存。apparition是幻象、幽灵，使人们联想到来来往往的乘客的一张张脸。第二行的petal花瓣则传递了美的信息。这一信息由于有深色而又带湿气的树枝的反衬而变得突出鲜明了，同时也给