Ezra-Pound-in-the-station-of-the-Metro

EzraPound1885—1972•anAmericanexpatriate•criticpoet•amajorfigureintheearlymodernistasThefatheroftheAmericanmodernpoetryEzraPound'sLife1855,borninHaileyIdahouniversityofPennsylvaniaHamiltoncollege1906,Masterdegree1908,aborad1920,apermanentexpatriateEzraPound'sLife1924leftParisforItalyW.W.ⅡItaliangovernment,radiobroadcasts1958accusedoftreason,dismissed1972diedinItalyMainLiteraryContributionImagism意象主义Vorticism旋涡主义（画派）Modernism现代主义EzraPound′smajorworks•ALumeSpento《灯火熄灭之时》1908Thefirstanthology•Personae《人物》1909•DesImagistes《意象派诗选》1914•TheSpiritofRomance《罗曼斯精神》1910•HomagetoSextusPropertivs•《向塞克斯图斯·普罗佩提乌斯致敬》1917•HughSelwynMauberley•《休·赛尔温·毛伯莱》1920•Cathay•TheCantos《诗章》1917~1959FamousWorks•Cathay•《中国诗章》basedontranslationsfromolderChinesepoetslikeLiBai•HughSelwynMauberley•《休赛尔温毛伯利》hisdisillusionmentandhisviewofhisowncareerWorks-collections•Cantos《诗章》theintellectualdiarysince1915encyclopedicepicpoem•“InaStationoftheMetro”《在地铁站内》•“APact”《合约》CommentsonEzraPound•Poundadvocatedtheuseofmythandpersonaeinpoetry.•stepawayfromtheverbosestyleofVictorianliterature•Hestressedclarity,precision,andeconomyoflanguage,earliertraditionalrhymeandmeterinordertocomposeinthesequenceofthemusicalphrase.Pound’scontributionsandeffects•HespreadsofImagism,amovementinpoetry.Becauseofhisabundantexperience,Imagismbecomecrucialandhasastablepositioninthehistory.HeproposedthreeprinciplesofImagistpoetryPoundstranslatedmanyChinesepoets.ChinesepoetryandJapanesepoetryhaveaneffectonPoundscreation.Hemadehugecontributiontotheliteraturecommunicationbetweeneastandwest.Pound’scontributionsandeffects•PoundhelpedtodiscoverandshapetheworkofcontemporariessuchasT.S.Eliot,JamesJoyce,RobertFrostandErnestHemingway.•WecanfindthatHemingway’sworksalsoclear,concretewhichhassomethingincommonwithPound’s•PoundstartedadifferentstylefromRomanticism.heopenedaninfluentialexchangeofworkandideasbetweenBritishandAmericanwriters•EzraPoundisgenerallyconsideredthepoetmostresponsiblefordefining(characterizing)andpromotingamodernistartisticpoetryInaStationoftheMetroTheapparitionofthesefacesinthecrowd;Petalsonawet,blackbough.Thetheme•thebeautyofhumanbeings.•Criticalonthegreatworkingpressure•Criticalonthedecadesociety…ArgueaboutthethemeofthispoemisnotthemostimportantFocusonthewritingcharacters•Imagismimagism•InastationofthemetroisoneoftherepresentativeworksofImagism•Apoettopresentjustapicture,nothisinsight.Anysignificancetobederivedfromtheimagehadtoappearinherentinitscleanpresentation.Exactwordsinsteadoftheflowerylanguageofpoetryaimedatinstantaneouseffect,visualandconcise.FreeversewiththenewrhythmsinthesequenceofthemusicalphraseImagesuperposition意象叠加•ImageSuperposition：animagesuperimposedonanotherimageItisessentiallyametaphoreliminatingthecontactwordthereforetwospecificimageissuperimposeddependingtheskippingthinkingandimaginationthereaderscanfindstherelationshipbetweenimages.意象叠加，即将一个意象叠加在另一个意象之上。它实质上是一种隐喻,由于喻体与本体之间省去了联系词,故而两个具体意象就叠加在一起了.进行跳跃式联想、想象,才能找到意象间的微妙联系.意象并置Juxtapositionofimages•指的是两个以上（含两个）意象以并列的方式有机组合在一起，它们之间没有时空的限定和关系的承接，作者的思想情感作为连结它们的主要纽带TwoorabovetwounrelatedimagescombinedThethoughtandfeelingisthelinkbetweenimagesInaStationoftheMetroJuxtapositionofimages•TherearefourimagesfacescrowdPetalsboughThesefourimagesjustpresentsintwolineswithoutanyverb.ThisistheJuxtapositionofimages.Tounderstandthefirstline,imaginationisneeded.Inthestation,manypeople,inthecrowdsomedifferentfacesappears.Secondline,TherelationshipbetweenPetalsboughOnthetree,manybranches,ontheboughsomebeautifulpetalsflowers.InaStationoftheMetroImagesuperpositionalsothesefourimages(people)facesPetals(hope)(societysituation)crowdbough(outmoded)facesrepresentpeople,alsoisametaphorforPetals,thepetalssymbolizehope,positive.Crowdrepresentthewholesociety,alsoisametaphorforbough,theboughsymbolizethepast,outmoded.8relationship14words.Comparison•Colorcomparison•PetalsandwetblackFromthiscomparisonwecanconcludethesymbolizationsoftheboughissomethingnegativeandthepetalsrepresentspositive.ComparisonbetweenStaticandactionsThereisnoverb,onlyfourimageslistedComparisonbetweenStaticandactionsstatic:ComparisonbetweenStaticandactionsThereisnoverb,onlyfourimageslistedActions:ThewordapparitiontransferredthefeelingthatAuthorsuddenlysawsomefacesinthecrowd.PetalsarevibrantflowersThisalsocanhelptoconcludepetalssymbolizegoodthings.CoclusionInastationofMetroanImagistpoem,fourteenwords,Representeconomyoflanguage,precisionofimageryandexperimentingwithnon-traditionalverseforms.Itpresentsapicturetothereadersandgivemoreimaginationtothereaders