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PART V The Twentieth-Century Literature课件
PART V;Historical Background;Schools of Literature;Features;Ezra Pound (1885 – 1972);Life;Works;He was influenced by Greek, Italy and Chinese poets.
He wrote some fresh short poems and also some all-inclusive long poems.
Personal tone; open and spontaneous style
Difficult to read and study; great influence on modern poetry;Appreciation of Works;T. S. Eliot (1888 – 1965);Life;Works;署深斑遗舌掀恐浆安降尉导极疯蜕脑汕炯吐实幽飘祝碾肉厂掖屏搪聂锚沙PART V The Twentieth-Century Literature课件PART V The Twentieth-Century Literature课件;“The Waste Land”;Theme
a picture of spiritual ruins in the Western world after WWI;
expressing the disillusionment of a whole generation;
trying to find ways of salvation
Form
free verse;Features
quotations and allusions (six different languages; nearly 60 others’ works and large amount of legends);
discontinuity and unrelatedness (to show the illogical sides of the modern life);
strong historical sense (using the past as a yardstick to measure the present);Significance
signifying the emergence of Modernism;
influenced the whole generation of writers;He once said he was a royalist in politics, classicist in literature and an Anglo-Catholic in religion.”
Actually, he chose religion to save the Western civilization and turned to be rather conservative in his late years. To many young writers, such as Hemingway, he was somewhat a lost leader.
;Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940);Life;torments of Fitzgerald in his late years
suffered the tuberculosis at 40
died of heart attack;Works;Short story collection
The Flappers and Philosophers
Tales of the Jazz Age
All the Sad Young Man;The Great Gatsby;Characters
Nick Carraway
the narrator, rational, mild, understanding, reserved
Jay Gatsby
innocent (romantic imagination of love, believing money’s power)
Daisy Buchanan
shallow, selfish, strong desire for extravagant life
Tom Buchanan
selfish, proud, false, no virtue at all
Myrtle Wilson
from the lower class, energetic, crude;Symbolism
Gatsby
the country’s history
Daisy
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