《美国文学》课件二十一.pptVIP

Lecture Twenty-One Imagism;Modernism in literature;Different schools in modernist literature late Symbolism; Imagism; Futurism; Expressionism; Surrealism; Existentialism; Magic Realis; Black Humor; the Theatre of the Absurd; etc. ;Common characteristics of Modernism ;The major artistic features ;Imagism ; Coming as a reaction to the traditional English poetics, imagism is a short-lived but influential literary movement in British and American literary history, chiefly occurring in the field of poetry from 1908 to 1917. ;The three stages of Imagism;The 2nd stage: 1912-1914;The 3rd stage: 1914 to 1917;Comment on Imagism:;Image;generally: a word or a sequence of words referring to any sensory experience and impression; representatives of things accessible to the five senses: sight hearing touch taste smell;types of images: visual auditory tactile gustatory (味觉的) olfactory (嗅觉的) kinesthetic abstract;tied / fixed: its meanings or associational values being the same or nearly the same for all readers, generally no ambiguity or misunderstandings; free: capable of having different meanings or associational values (unsteady, uncertain) for different people ;literal: involving no necessary change or extension in the obvious meaning of the words; figurative: involving a “turn” on the literal meaning of the words;休姆一生仅写过六首小诗，却被庞德誉为第一位“意象派诗人”，如他的《秋》可谓最早的意象诗： 秋夜一丝寒意—— 我在田野中漫步， 遥望赤色的月亮俯身在藩篱上 像一个红脸庞的农夫。 我没有停步招呼，只是点点头， 周遭尽是深深沉思的星星，脸色苍白， 像城市中的儿童。;Autumn------By T. E. Hulme 1883–1917 ;希尔达·杜利特尔著名的《奥丽特》发表于《诗刊》1913年第4期： 翻腾吧，大海—— 翻腾起你尖尖的松针， 把你巨大的松针倾泻在我们的岩石上， 把你的绿扔在我们身上， 用你池水似的杉覆盖我们。 ;OREAD ——by Hilda Doolittle Whirl up, sea—— Whirl your pointed pines, Splash your great pines On our rocks Hurl your green over us, Cover us with your pools of fir; In a Station of the Metro ----Ezra Pound The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black b