lecture_4 美国文学史课件

Three principles of imagism put forward by Pound: • Direct treatment of thing: • Economy of Expression: • Rhythm:
5. What is an “image” according tபைடு நூலகம் Pound:
•1912---1914: Pound took over and championed the poetry.
• 1914---1917: Amy Lowell took over from Pound and pushed the movement in to the period of “Amygism” as Pound called it.
It offered a new way of writing which was valid not only for the Imagist poets but for modern poetry as a whole.
❖ The movement was a training school in which the many great poets learned their first lessons in poetic art.
All forces seemed to be pulling apart, no mythical center, God expelled from universe in spiritual waste land, life---meaningless, futile, homeless, estranged.
something more ambitious and eternal.
Importance:
❖ It is a rebellion against the traditional poetics that failed to reflect the new life of new country.
disappeared----Red Scare in 1919
2. Spiritual dislocation and fragmentation:
Young people join in the “war to end all wars”---not heroic, glorious redivision of power
6. Limitations and Importance: Limitations:
❖ a single image is incapable of sustaining a longer poetic effort. Thus no greater poetry came
❖ out of the movement. ❖ Its own aesthetics stunted its growth into
precision new rhythms free choice of subject matter
2． Imagist theorist---English writer. T.E.Hulme
He suggests that modern art deals with expression and communication of momentary phrases in the poet’s mind. Poetic techniques should become subtle enough to record exactly the momentary impressions. The most effective means to express these momentary impressions is through the use of dominant image.
Pound defined an image as that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in a stage of time. Later he extended this definition as “a vortex or cluster of fused ideas” “endowed with energy”
Freud’s theory—film—sex Cultural Background: Shopenhaver “Will to live” Nietzsche: super man Freud’s: psychoanalysis
Imagism
1. starting : France, England from drawing language of common speech with
3.Three stages of Imagist Movement
•1908—1909: began in London, Hulme founded a poet’s club, Hulme insisted that “ absolutely accurate presentation and no verbiage”.
The best poetic effect is visual and concert. Thus an imagist’s image represents a moment of revealed truth, truth revealed by a physical object and seen as such.
Lecture 4 Literature in 1920s 1920s American Literature
I. Background: 1. Economic Boom : “Dollar Decade” carefree prosperity pursuit of pleasure Social labor movement almost