[英语学习]3-Robert Frost.pptVIP

Modern Poetry It is universally acknowledged that America already produced some of its best poets in the 19th century such as Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson , and Walt Whitman. But Untillthe 20th century, poetry performed in American culture an important social function: As a public event it gave expression to the values, the aspirations, and the pride of the community; as ritual it dignified the proceedings occasioning the poem; as language it had the power to inspire and enertain. In the 20th century, two characteristic strains in American poetry are introspection and social criticism. Ezra Loomis Pound (1885-1972) Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) Wallace Stevens (1897-1955) E.R. Robinson (1869-1935) Robert Lee Frost ( 1874-1963) Imagist Movement 1909-1917 Imagist movement is a movement of English and American poets in revolt from romanticism, seeking clarity of expression through the use of precise images. Its first anthology: Des Imagistes, published in 1914, edited by Pound. The principles of the imagist manifesto were laid down by Pound in 1913. the official credo was prepared the 1915 anthology: Some Imagist Poets, edited by Amy Lowell. As a broad movement, imagism signals the beginning of English and American modernism, and a definite break with the Romantic-Victorian tradition. As a particular school, les imagists are the heritages of T. E. Hulme’s 1909 group of impressionist poets who experimented with brief visual poems in the Oriental manner. Imagist Movement It shares the penchant/tendency for sculptural hardness and immaculate craftsmanship, the accent on pure poetry to the exclusion of all extrapoetic content, the practice of irregular, free verse. It is a laconic/brief complex in which “painting or sculpture seems as if it were just coming over into speech.” Its significance resides in its revaluation of Romanticism and 19th century which, with few exceptions, it dismissed as a sentimental, blurry, manneristic period; its insistence on the f