19 15, Pound published his English version of China's ancient poem China and two japanese theatre collections according to the manuscript of Oriental scholar Fenolosa. During his stay in London, he also published two other works: Homagetosextus Propertives (1919) and Hughselwynmauberley (1920). 192 1 year, Pound moved to Paris, 1924, and moved to Labalo in the southeast of Genoa.
During his stay in Paris and London, he not only continued to write, but also explored and cultivated talents and made extensive friends with European and American literary circles, making a unique contribution to breaking the silence of British and American literature, especially British and American poetry, and promoting the "revival" of American literature. He had extensive contacts with sculptors, painters and musicians, and played a very important role in the formation and development of modernism in Europe and America. From 19 14 to 19 16, Pound had close contacts with Irish poet Ye Zhi. He admired Ye Zhi and took Ye Zhi as his teacher. Ye Zhi was also influenced by him to some extent. Pound helped James Joyce to publish Portrait of Young Artists, Apotla Ito Fatista Ayounman and Ulysses, and helped Eliot to sort out and abridge the first draft of The Waste Land, and recommended it to the publishing house for publication. He met Hemingway in Paris and helped him publish his first book.
After 1924 left Paris, on the eve of World War II, Pound's attention gradually shifted from literary creation to capitalist political and economic issues. While creating literature, he wrote some articles on social criticism. This paper discusses poverty and prosperity, war and peace, unemployment and usury, and criticizes the erosion of people's thoughts by materialism and industrialism. It is hard to understand that the study of these problems eventually led Pound to embark on the road of anti-Semitism, praising Mussolini's fascist national socialism.
During the Second World War, Pound made hundreds of radio speeches on Rome Radio, criticizing American war actions, attacking Roosevelt's war policy, praising Mussolini, and arguing that Mussolini's policy of governing the country could promote a society free from greed and usury. Pound was charged with treason in 1943 for the above reasons. 1944 was captured by American troops and imprisoned in Pisa, Italy. He was taken to Washington for trial at 1945. Later, he was declared insane and was exempted from trial. From then on, Pound spent more than ten years in a mental hospital. During his detention, Pound continued to translate Confucius' works and wrote Chapter 7 1-84 of Pisa. 1949 This work was awarded by the Library of Congress and reviewed by Eliot, which caused great controversy in the United States. 1958, through the mediation of ArchibaldMcLeish, RobertFrost and ErnestHemingway, Pound was acquitted of treason without trial and returned to Italy. 1972 1 1 died in Venice.
Before and after Pound was released, some of his works continued to be published. These works include letterfezrapound (1907-1941), literaliesays (1954+0954) and selected essays (1909-). 3? Image juxtaposition: juxtapose two visible images in different time and space to stimulate and arouse other feelings. Hume said: "The combination of two visible images can be called visual chord. Their combination gives people a different image from the two. " The juxtaposition of different images has caused feelings that have been divorced from the meaning of one of them and have a brand-new feeling. For example, China's poem "Fallen leaves are like the foam of a waterfall, but I think the long river always rolls forward", and the images of fallen leaves and rivers have been transformed into the meaning of getting rid of old cloth and heading for the future; "The cock crows in Maodian and the frost on the bridge is neglected" is a manifestation of the hardships and sufferings of a lonely wanderer who travels far, gets up early and stays late. As an iconic work of Imagist poetry, Pound's In the Subway Station;
These faces in the crowd are like ghosts,
Many petals on a wet black branch.
There are only two images in the poem. The faces in the crowd are juxtaposed with the petals on the black branches. This is an instantaneous image obtained from the people walking in a hurry, which writes the poet's instantaneous visual impression and instantaneous inner feelings. In the crowded subway station, the poet stood in the middle, and passers-by came face to face and hurried by. The whole atmosphere was gloomy and humid, suffocating. Several pale and beautiful faces of women and children appear and disappear from time to time, breaking this cold and dreary feeling and giving people a pleasant feeling, thus feeling some vitality. Two juxtaposed images are reflected in the brain, forming a picture of strong contrast between vulgarity and beauty, dampness and freshness. It not only shows the busy and mediocre life of urbanites, but also gives people a sense of squeezing, depicting the anxious, nervous and turbulent, busy and monotonous life reality of modern people, and also shows the attachment and yearning of the soul for natural beauty. Thirdly, imagist poetry pays attention to the internal rhythm and rhythm of image combination, and integrates images with the thoughts and feelings contained in them. He advocates writing poems according to the musicality of language and opposes writing poems according to fixed steps. He believes that even metrical poems are synchronic and hypnotic "metronomes". Imagism found that Japanese poems didn't rhyme, and China's poems were translated word for word by sinologists, which became free poems. Therefore, imagist poetry is unruly and close to free poetry. They advocate that the musicality of poetry should be natural and pay attention to the internal rhythm and rhythm of things. This has promoted the free verse in English-speaking countries.
The generation of image can be divided into two forms: one is subjective image; The second is the objective image. The manifestations of images can be divided into two creative tendencies: one is static imagism, represented by Amy, Aldington and Doolittle, which advocates classical beauty and has a romantic style, and has created many sculpture poems and landscape poems. For example, Amy's "Environment": "Condensed on the maple leaf,/Dew glistened red,/In the lotus flower,/As pale as a tear." Autumn fog: "Is it dragonfly or maple leaf?" The image is quiet and beautiful, just like a beautiful landscape frame. The second is dynamic imagism, represented by Pound and Ye Saining. 19 14, Pound published the poem Vortex, which marked the birth of the newly established "Vortex School". Pound advocates that under the principle of imagery poetry, the dynamic and vitality of poetry should be emphasized. He believes: "Image is not an opinion, but a bright spot or a group. I may or may not have to call it a whirlpool. Through it, ideas keep pouring in and pouring out. " Pursuing the fluency of intention and the complex effect of multi-image jumping in creation.
Although imagist writers have different aesthetic concepts and artistic styles, they have formed some consistent tendencies in their creation. No matter Pound, Amy or Ye Saining, imagist poetry shows a sentimental, depressed and hopeful mood. Imagist poetry is short, fresh, delicate and affectionate.