美国文学史 意象主义和庞德.ppt

The movement underwent three phases in its brief yet immensely important history. It first begun in London in the years 1908-1909. The second phase of the movement was the period of some three years (1912-1914). The third phase of Imagism(1914-1917). Three Imagist poetic principles: Direct treatment of the “thing,” whether subject or objective. To use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation. As regarding rhythm, to compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome. What is the Image as the Imagists saw it? T. E. Hulme said that the image must enable one “to dwell and linger upon a point of excitement, to achieve the impossible and convert a point a line.” Pound define an image as that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time, and later he extended this definition when he stated that an image was “a vortex or cluster of fused ideas” “endowed with energy”. In a station of the metro by Ezra Pound  The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams  so much depends upona red wheel barrow??? glazed with rain water??? beside the white chickens. Imagism It limitations are apparent. But the movement was important in a number of ways in the development of modern poetry. Ezra Pound * The Coming of the Image It came, it is true, as a reaction to the traditional English poetics with its iambic pentameter, its verbosity, and extra-poetic padding; but it served, first and foremost , to meet the need of expressing the temper of the age. (P158) 1885—1972 Historic Position A leading spokesman of the “Imagist Movement” One of the most influential American poets and critic The father of the American modern poetry The life of Pound born in Hailey, Idaho grew up and was educated mainly in Pennsylvania. In 1901 at the age of 15, he entere