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1、LectureNine:ModernPoetryDuringthefirstdecadesofthe20thcentury,modernismbecameaninternationaltendencyagainstpositivismandrepresentationalartinartliterature.Itisassumedthatmodernismwastheconsequenceofthetransformationofsocietybroughtaboutbyindustrialismandtechnologyinthecourseofthe19thcentury.Theess
2、enceofmodernismwasabreakwiththepast,anditalsofosteredabeliefinartandliteratureasanavenuetoself-fulfillment.Itincludedawiderangeofartisticexpressionssuchassymbolism,impressionism,post-impressionism,futurism,constructivism,imagism,vorticism,expressionism,dada,andsurrealism.1.Modernismdramatizeddisco
3、ntinuity(asenseofdisjunction)andimminentseverancefromthepastwhilemakingdeterminedeffortstousethepast,itsvaluesandartisticformsbyincorporatingtheminnewliteraryproduction.2.Modernistshadasenseoffragmentationinsocialcommunitiesandthefragmentationwithintheindividualhimself.3.Thedistinctivefeatureoflit
4、erarymodernismwasitsstrongandconsciousbreakwithtraditionalforms,perceptionsandtechniquesofexpression,anditsgreatconcernwithlanguageandallaspectsofitsmedium.Imagism:Majorfeature:Imagismwasonlyoneofthenewtechniquesofwritingpoetrythatwaspartofthemodernistperiodanditwasoneofthemostessentialtechniques.
5、1.Withaspiritofrevoltagainstconventions,imagismwasanti-romanticandanti-Victorian.2.Imagismproducedfreeversewithoutimposingarhythmicalpattern.Therhythmwascomposedasifthepoetweremakingamusicalphrase.3.Inasense,imagismwasequivalenttonaturalisminfiction.Imagisminpoetrycamefromthesamebasisasnaturalismi
6、nfiction.4.Imagismtriedtorecordobjectiveobservationsofanobjectorasituationwithoutinterpretationorcommentbypoet.ThemostoutstandingfiguresofthemovementwereEzraPound,AmyLowellandHildaDoolittle.Poundchampionedthemovementfrom1912to1914,settingdowntheImagismprinciples.EzraPound(1885-1972)Oftenidentified
7、asthefatherofmodernAmericanpoetry,heledtheexperimentinrevolutionizingpoetry.PoundwasAmerica’sfirstself-consciousinnovatorinpoetryandoneofthemostimportantimagistpoetsandcriticsofhistime.HismajorworkofpoetryistheCa
