Ezra-Pound埃兹拉庞德.ppt

单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,Ezra Pound(18851972),Historic Position,A leading spokesman of the “Imagist Movement”,One of the most influential American,poets and critic,The father of the American modern poetry,1.Life,2.Works,3.Point of view,4.Style,5.contribution,Ezra Pound,1.,Life Experience(1885-1972),Born in,Hailey,Idoho,in 1885.,Met William Carlos Williams and Hilda,Dolittle,at the University of Pennsylvania,Sailed for Europe in 1908.,Came into contact with,Hulme,and his Poets Club.,Appointed himself foreign editor of,Poetry,From 1913 began his study of the Chinese language and ancient Chinese culture.,In 1914,abandoned imagism in favor of,Vorticism,;got married.,During W.W.I,assisted young writers,In 1924 moved to Italy and became involved in Fascist politics,broadcasting over Radio Rome against allies.,In 1945,returned to America and was arrested on charge of treason.,In 1946,acquitted,and declared insane.,In 1958,released from St.Elizabeths Hospital in Washington.,In 1972,died in Venice a recluse.,2.Works,Cathay,The Cantos,117,poems;,the substructure is,Homeric,;,it has a direct relationship with,Divine Comedy,:the title of the poem;the tripartite structure and its number of about 100 poems;,the authors“intellectual diary since 1915”,;,a poets attempt,to impose order and meaning upon,a chaotic and meaningless world through art;,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,his best poem,;,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;,the narrator is,Odysseus-Pound;,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”;,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,Pounds early poems are fresh and lyrical.,The Cantos,can be notoriously difficult in some sections,but delightfully beautiful in others.Few have made serious study of the long poem;fewer,if anyone at all,have had the courage to declare that they have conquered Pound;and many seem to agree that,The Cantos,is a monumental failure.,5.Contribution,He has helped,through theory and practice,to chart out the course of modern poetry.,Ezra Pound is generally considered the poet most responsible for defining(characterizing)and promoting a,modernist artistic poetry,.,In the early twentieth century,he opened an influential,exchange of work and ideas,between,British,and,American writers,and was famous for the,generosity,.,His own significant contributions to poetry begin with his,promulgation(spread)of,Imagism,a movement in poetry.,He stressed,clarity,precision,and,economy of language,and foregoing(earlier)traditional rhyme and meter in order to compose in the sequence of,the musical phrase,.,Thank you,