Ezra-Pound-美国文学庞德课件.ppt

1、Ezra Pound 埃兹拉庞德 （1885-1972）,“the prophet of the open spirit” 自由精神的预言者,Life,his misbehavior in WWII embrace fascism (Mussolini and Hitler) criticize Roosevelt and Jews arrested for treason by the U.S. government St. Elizabeths psychiatric hospital, Washington released by fellow writers,Life,the lead

2、er of imagism the respected teacher of many contemporaries Eliot, Joyce, Frost, Hemingway “He defends when they are attacked, he gets them into magazines and out of jail. He writes articles about them. He introduces them to wealthy women. He gets publishers to take their books. He sits up all night

3、with them when they claim to be dying he advances them hospital expenses and dissuades them from suicide.” - Hemingway,Life,Time magazine called him in 1933 “a cat that walks by himself, tenaciously unhousebroken and very unsafe for children”. Awarded the Bollingen Prize (博林根奖) in 1949, triggering e

4、normous controversy,Imagism,four principles: 1) direct treatment 单刀直入 2) precise image 意象清晰 3) economical expression 表达简洁 4) musical rhythm 富有乐感,Image,An image is an ？and ？complex in an instant of time. intellectual emotional 意象即理智和情感在刹那间的融合。,Major Works,Poetic works: Exultations; Personae; Cantos,

5、etc. 狂喜人物诗章 Translations: Cathay; The Classic Anthology Defined by Confucius; Shih-Ching, etc. 中国孔子经典选集诗经,Cantos-Intellectual Diary Since 1915,a total of 117 poems a notoriously difficult book of various themes: history, politics, economy, education, art, etc Pounds belief in the doctrine of Confuci

6、us,In a Station of the Metro,The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.,Analysis,image: “petals” on “wet, black bough” apparition: appearance, something which shows up something which is not real and which cannot be clearly observed 人群中幽然浮现的一张张脸庞， 黝黑的湿树枝上的一片片花瓣。,Analys

7、is,influence from ancient Chinese poetry (长恨歌:“玉容寂寞泪阑干，梨花一枝春带雨.) a modern adoption of the Japanese haiku (俳句是以十七个音为一首的一种日本短诗),Further Reading,Further Listening,中国风,七里香,窗外的麻雀在电线杆上多嘴 你说这一句很有夏天的感觉 手中的铅笔在纸上来来回回 我用几行字形容你是我的谁,word picture,如诗如画,The River-Merchants Wife: A Letter,After Li Po While my hair w

8、as still cut straight across my forehead I played about the front gate, pulling flowers. You came by on bamboo stilts, playing horse, You walked about my seat, playing with blue plums. And we went on living in the village of Chokan: Two small people, without dislike or suspicion. At fourteen I marri

9、ed My Lord you. I never laughed, being bashful. Lowering my head, I looked at the wall. Called to, a thousand times, I never looked back. At fifteen I stopped scowling, I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever, and forever. Why should I climb the look out? At sixteen you depart

10、ed You went into far Ku-to-en, by the river of swirling eddies, And you have been gone five months. The monkeys make sorrowful noise overhead. You dragged your feet when you went out. By the gate now, the moss is grown, the different mosses, Too deep to clear them away! The leaves fall early this au

11、tumn, in wind. The paired butterflies are already yellow with August Over the grass in the West garden; They hurt me. I grow older. If you are coming down through the narrows of the river Kiang, Please let me know beforehand, And I will come out to meet you As far as Cho-fu-Sa.,长干行,作者: 李白 妾发初覆额，折花门前剧。 郎骑竹马来，绕床