Ezra Pound埃兹拉.庞德.ppt

1.Life Experience(1885-1972) Born in Hailey,Idoho in 1885. Met William Carlos Williams and Hilda Dolittle at the University of Pennsylvania Sailed for Europe in 1908. Came into contact with Hulme and his Poets’ Club. Appointed himself foreign editor of Poetry From 1913 began his study of the Chinese language and ancient Chinese culture. In 1914, abandoned imagism in favor of Vorticism; got married. During W.W. I, assisted young writers In 1924 moved to Italy and became involved in Fascist politics, broadcasting over Radio Rome against allies. In 1945, returned to America and was arrested on charge of treason. In 1946, acquitted, and declared insane. In 1958, released from St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington. In 1972, died in Venice a recluse. 2.Works Cathay The Cantos ① 117 poems; ② the substructure is Homeric; ③ it has a direct relationship with Divine Comedy: the title of the poem; the tripartite structure and its number of about 100 poems; ④ the author’s “intellectual diary since 1915”; ⑤ a poet’s attempt to impose order and meaning upon a chaotic and meaningless world through art; ⑥ he sees in Chinese history and the doctrine of Confucius a source of strength and wisdom with which to counterpoint Western gloom and confusion. Features: 　(1) Language: intricate and obscure 　(2) Theme: complex subject matters 　(3) Form: no fixed framework, no central theme, no attention to poetic rules Hugh Selwyn Mauberley ① his best poem; ② 2 parts, the 1st part: the quest of an artist in an unresponsive world; the 2nd part: a similar quest but it has taken on a new dimension of meaning; ③ the narrator is Odysseus-Pound; ④ commercialization and debasement of art, about the feeling of frustration and failure on the part of the artist, and about the poet himself, who “out of key with his time, / strove to resuscitate the dead art / Of poetry…”; ⑤ a painful record of the growth of Pound as a poet 3. Point of View 　(1) The artist was mora