英美文学第三章.ppt

History and Anthology of American Literature;Quizz;Twentieth-Century Literature;Writers of the first postwar era self-consciously acknoeledged that they were a Lost Generation, devoid of faith and alienated from a civilization.;Harlem Renaissance;Ezra Pound(1885-1972);works;Imagism;An Imagist poem often contains a single dominant image, or a quick succession of related images. e.g. In a Station of the Metro;In a Station of the Metro;This one-image poem is a classic Imagist poem, presenting a quick, sharp image of the human faces seen in the darkness of a Paris subway station. Here the faces of people in the subway station are compared to petals on a wet, black bough.;an Imagist poem by Ezra Pound published in 1913 in the literary magazine Poetry. In the poem, Pound describes a moment in the underground metro station in Paris in 1912; Pound suggested that the faces of the individuals in the metro were best put into a poem not with a description but with an equation. The poem contains only fourteen words, further exemplifying Imagisms precise economy of languagePound’s process of deletion from thirty lines[citation needed] to only fourteen words typifies Imagism’s focus on economy of language, precision of imagery and experimenting with non-traditional verse forms. ;The object treated is the faces in that dim and damp context. The impresion is brought out most vividly by the single, dominant image of flower petals on a wet, black bough, which serves as the most concise, direct and definite metaphor for the faces in the crowd.;Quizz;Edwin Arlington Robinson(1869-1935);Edwin Arlington Robinson was associated with the poetic renaissance that burst upon America during the second decade of the twentieth century, but he was never identified with the new poets. His life spanned the waning years of the genteel era and the rebellious peroid of disillusionment that followed WWI. The traditional poets found his poetry dangerously radical while the avant garde poets found it ta