Ezra_Pound英文介绍.ppt

1、Ezra Pound 庞德 (18851973),Ezra Pound (18851973),Pounds Life Story,born in Hailey, Idaho,University of Pennsylvania Hamilton College Master degree in 1906, Romance languages, Renaissance literature,1908, again abroad,1020, a permanent expatriate,1924, left Paris for Italy,W. W. II, Italian government,

2、 radio broadcasts,accused of treason, dismissed in 1958,died in in 1972, in Italy,Pounds,Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (October 30, 1885 November 1, 1972) was an American expatriate poet, critic and intellectual who was a major figure of the Modernist movement in the first half of the 20th century. He is

3、 generally considered the poet most responsible for defining and promoting a modernist aesthetic in poetry.1 The critic Hugh Kenner said of Pound upon meeting him: I suddenly knew that I was in the presence of the center of modernism.2 In the early teens of the twentieth century, he opened a fruitfu

4、l exchange of work and ideas between British and American writers, and was famous for the generosity with which he advanced the work of such major contemporaries as Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, H. D., Ernest Hemingway, Wyndham Lewis, and especially T. S. Eliot. Pound also h

5、ad a profound influence on the Irish writers W. B. Yeats and James Joyce. His own significant contributions to poetry begin with his promotion of Imagism, a movement in poetry which derived its technique from classical Chinese and Japanese poetrystressing clarity, precision, and economy of language,

6、 and forgoing traditional rhyme and meter in order to, in Pounds words, compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in the sequence of the metronome.3 His later work, spanning nearly fifty years, focused on his epic poem The Cantos.,Pounds Major Literary Works,Cathay 华夏集 神州集 中国诗章,based on tra

7、nslations from older Chinese poets like Li Bai,2) Hugh Selwyn Mauberley 休赛尔温毛伯利,his disillusionment and his view of his own career,Pounds Major Literary Works,3) The Cantos 诗章,It explores western civilization from the classical past through the medieval period and the Renaissance to the modern age,

8、and describes remedies for its cultural ills.,encyclopedic epic poem,Pounds Major Literary Works,5) “In a Station of the Metro” “在地铁站里”,“A Pact” “合同”，“协约”,庞德曾把“意象”称为 “一刹那间思想和感情的复合体”。,用视觉意象引起联想， 表达一瞬间的直觉和思想。 一般用自由体写作短小篇章。,意象派;映衬对比;音乐性短句,Comments on Ezra Pound,Ezra Pound is generally considered the po

9、et most responsible for defining (characterizing) and promoting a modernist artistic poetry.,Comments on Ezra Pound,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.,Comments on Ezra Pound,His own significant contributions to poetry begin with his promulgation (spread) of Imagism, a movement in poetry.,Comments on Ezra Pound,He stressed clarity, precision, and economy of language, an