Imagism & Pound

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1、OutlineofAmericanLiteratureIColonialPeriod(1607—1765)IIRevolutionaryPeriod(1765--1800)IIITheAgeofRomanticism(1800—1865)IVTheAgeofRealism(1865—1918)VAmericanModernism(1918—1945)VIContemporaryLiterature(1945--)AmericanModernismDefinitionandFeaturesofAmericanModernismDef

2、initionofModernismDuringthefirstdecadesofthe20thcenturymodernismbecameaninternationaltendencyinartandliterature.ItbeganinGermanyinthe1890s,andspreadworldwide,andendedintheearly1940s.Itincludedawiderangeofartisticexpressionssuchassymbolism,impressionism,post-impression

3、ism,imagism,expressionismandsoon.Thedistinctivefeatureofliterarymodernismwasitsstrongandconsciousbreakwithtraditionalforms,perceptionsandtechniquesofexpression,anditsgreatconcernwithlanguageandallaspectsofitsmedium.SectionOneAmericanModernismSectionTwoModernPoetrySect

4、ionThreeAmericanDramaSectionFourModernNovelsAmericanModernism(1918—1945)AEzraPound(1885-1975)andImagistMovement(1909—1917)FollowersofPoundBT.S.Eliot(1888—1965)andNewPoetryMovementFollowersofEliotCE.E.Cummings(1894—1962)DThreeTypesofPoetsModernPoetryImagistMovementDefi

5、nitionofImagismThreeprinciplesofImagismExamplesofImagistpoetryTheImagistMovement(Imagism)LedbyEzraPoundandflourishedfrom1909to1917,themovementadvancedmodernisminartswhichconcentratedonreformingthemediumofpoetryasopposedtoRomanticism,especiallyTennyson'swordinessandhig

6、h-flownlanguageinpoetry.BackgroundofImagism1EmilyDickinsondiedin1886WaltWhitmandiedin18922Victorianpoeticbequest,withitsextrapoeticvalues,itsfrillsandfestoonsoflanguage.ThethreeprinciplesfollowedbytheImagistswere:(1)"Directtreatment"(2)"Economyofexpression"(3)“Freedom

7、inverse"DirectTreatmentThesubjectofthepoemmustbeexpressedinsuchawayastoresembleitandreproduceitascloselyaspossible.Simplelanguagemustbeusedtocreatean"image"whichthereadercanimmediatelyseeinhisownimagination.NofussorornamentEconomyofexpressionTousenowordthatdoesnotcont

8、ributetothepresentation.Nodrawingofconclusions,noexplanations.FreedominVerseBreakingawayfromconventionalpoemsApoemshouldbeco