美国文学imagism.ppt

Imagism
School of Foreign Languages
Nanyang Normal University
By Lixiaohai
Imagism is a poetic movement of England and the United States, which flourished from 1908 to 1917.
Its creed includes the use of the language mon speech, precision, the creation of new rhythms, absolute freedom in choice of subject matter, the evocation of images in hard, clear poetry, and concentration.
Thomas Ernest Hulme (1883-1917), an English philosopher, founded the Poets’ Club in 1908.
Imagism in Poetry
America Imagism started in Chicago in 1912 with the publication of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse.
It marked the beginning of American Imagism and of American Modernism in poetry.
It represented a poetic renaissance in American literature.
Two leaders:
Pound Amy Lowell,
American Imagism
Other important poets in this period include William Carlos Williams, T. S. Eliot, . Robinson, Wallace Stevens, . Cummings and Carl Sandburg.
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Features
They called for:
free verse
clear images,
free choice of subject matter,
compressed poetic expression,
common speech.
To use the language mon speech, but to employ the exact word, not the nearly-exact, nor the merely decorative word.
free verse than in conventional forms. Absolute freedom in the choice of subject.
To present an image.
concentration浓缩is of the very essence of poetry.
Imagist Manifesto
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In the history of American poetry, imagism was only a transient phase of no longer than a decade. In 1908 it began. During 1912-1914, it gathers momentum and put out a manifesto with immense activity around Pound, but ten years later it faded. Because it hardly capable of sustaining a longer poetic effort
American poet, critic, editor, and translator; one of the foremost literary figures in literary modernism
As a poet, Pound experimented with various verse forms, from short poems focusing on concrete images to his epic masterpiece, the Cantos.
As an essayist, he wrote manifestos establishing influent