Imagism(意象派).pptVIP

Imagism I. Background Imagism was influenced by French symbolism, ancient Chinese poetry and Japanese literature “haiku” (an epigrammatic Japanese verse form of three short lines). II.?Development: Three Stages 1. 1908~1909: London, T. E. Hulme, a lot of talking but not as much writing 2. 1912~1914: England - America, Ezra Pound took over and championed the new poetry. 3. 1914~1917: Amy Lowell took over from Pound and pushed the movement into the period of “Amygism”. III. What is an “image”? 　　An image is defined by Pound 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”. The exact word must bring the effect of the object before the reader as it had presented itself to the poet’s mind at the time of writing. In a Station of the Metro Ezra Pound The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. IV.? Principles 1. Direct treatment of the “thing”, whether subjective or objective; 　 2. To use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation; 　 3. As regarding rhythm, to compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in the sequence of a metronome. V. Significance 1. It was a rebellion against the traditional poetics which failed to reflect the new life of the new century. 　 2. It offered a new way of writing which was valid not only for the Imagist poets but for modern poetry as a whole. 　 3. The movement was a training school in which many great poets learned their first lessons in the poetic art. 　 4. It is this movement that helped to open the first pages of modern English and American poetry. Autumn Evening crows perch on old trees wreathed with withered vine, Water of a stream flows by a family cottage near a tiny bridge. A lean horse walks on an ancient road in western breeze, The sun is setting in the west, The heart-broken one is at t