Ezra_Pound埃兹拉.庞德课件.ppt

Ezra Pound ; 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 morally and culturally the arbiter 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. 　 (4) He saw a chaotic world that wanted setting to rights, and a humanity, suffering from spiritual death and cosmic injustice, that needed saving. He was for the most part of his life trying to offer Confucian philosophy as the one faith which could help to save the West.;4. Style: very difficult to read 　 Pound’s early poems are fresh and lyrical. The Cantos can be notoriously difficult in some sections, but delightfully beautiful in o