上课Ezra-Pound.ppt

The Imagist Movement (Imagism) Led by Ezra Pound and flourished from 1909 to 1917, the movement advanced modernism in arts which concentrated on reforming the medium of poetry as opposed to Romanticism, especially Tennyson s wordiness and high-flown language in poetry. The three principles followed by the Imagists: (1) Direct treatment (2) Economy of expression (3) “Free verse 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 Ezra married the artist Dorothy Shakespear in 1914. The life of Pound 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 in 1945 . sent to the US, where he was deemed mentally unfit to stand trial for treason. The life of Pound 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. evaluation 　(1) The artist was morally and culturally the arbiter泰斗and the “savior” of the race, he took it upon himself to purify the arts and became the prime mover of a few experimental movements, the aim of which was to dump the old into the dustbin and bring forth something new. (2) To him, life was sordid personal crushing oppression, and culture produced nothing but “intangible bondage”. (3) Pound sees in Chinese history and the doctrine of Confucius a source of strength and wisdom with which to counterpoint Western gloom and confusion. Ancient China