Imagism is a literary movement initiated and put into practice by some British and American poets from 1909 to 19 17. Its purpose is to ask the poet to vividly express things with vivid, accurate, implicit and highly concentrated images, and to integrate the poet's thoughts and feelings into poetry. It opposes comments and sighs. During his stay in London, Pound established a salon with hilda doolittle and richard aldington, which was supported by many people, including D.H. Rau-Reno and william carlos williams. Pound defined the name Imagist in 1902, and summarized several forbidden examples of Imagist in March 2003 19 13. Pound once edited TheEgoist, an imagist publication, and in 19 13 he edited the first collection of imagist poems. Like many schools in western literary and art circles at the beginning of this century, Imagism was abandoned shortly after it prevailed. Instead, vortex theory came into being, but as an idea, vortex theory has little sympathy and weak influence. The creation of vortex school focuses on expressing strength rather than displaying image. Pound and the supporters of vortex theory ran a magazine Elast during the period of1914-1915. He also followed some thoughts of Vortex School in his creation.
1945, in the drizzly early spring of World War II, the 50th Army of the United States swept the west coast of Italy. When passing through the ancient city of Labaro, it met an old gentleman from his own country who had a book by Confucius in his pocket.
This time 55 years ago, the Justice Department in Washington was preparing to try the biggest treason case in American history. The Smithsonian said that unlike other countries, the United States has not had enough cases of treason for 200 years. So far, there are only two "epic" cases of treason.
One is the case of Benedict arnold in 1807. Arnold 1775 volunteered to join the army when the Lexington War broke out in Massachusetts and took part in the colonial people's war against Britain. He fought bravely and suffered many serious injuries. In the end, his official position will at least be transferred to Philadelphia because of his disability, and then he will make money for a luxurious life and undermine the regulations of the state and the army. 1779, he sold American intelligence to Britain. 178 1 year, he led the troops to attack New London, Connecticut. George Washington sentenced Arnold to death in absentia. This name has become synonymous with American "traitor". )
The other is 1945, which occupies the front page of the United States.
This is a new kind of treason, which is impossible to exist in the history of war. Is to use radio to promote hostile countries. From February 1940, Pound broadcast to the United States on short wave from Rome twice a week. He writes his own speeches on topics including economy, history, politics and culture. He condensed his name and called him Uncle Izz. He changed his upper-class accent and pretended to be a hillbilly to attract ordinary audiences. His unpredictable and impulsive broadcasts sometimes even made Italian officials suspect that he was a spy sent by the United States and was sending military information to his hometown in secret code.
Pound belongs to such a person who is anxious about all human problems and writes prescriptions.
The prescription includes: controlling traffic congestion (the suggestion is: building a roundabout street, and the basement of 40 floors on both sides can park 20 thousand cars), and how to feed the Italian population (the suggestion is: planting peanuts). The most important advice comes from his economic theory: to achieve a fairer distribution through reasonable control of the currency. He tried to persuade Mussolini, but unfortunately the other party didn't have time to deal with it. ) His Asian geopolitical suggestion is: China and Japanese drove Australians out of Australia-this argument put forward on February 7th, 194 1, 1 is like a fable and alarm: the Japanese threw it away that day, but not in the direction he suggested, but in Pearl Harbor.
Four days later, Mussolini declared war on America. The United States Congress declared war on Italy. Pound became an enemy of the Allies. He still acts in his own way. He spends three weeks every month between his wife's apartment in Labaro and his mistress's house on the hillside. The fourth week, he went to Rome to cooperate with fascism and recorded a month-long radio program, each time receiving 350 lira from the Ministry of Popular Culture. This methodical day lasted until the summer of 1943, when Mussolini was captured by his own political party, and Italy was divided into two factions, one of which stood on the side of the Allies. In Pound's view, this is betrayal. When Hitler sent airborne troops to rescue Mussolini, who was imprisoned, and established the fascist "* * * Republic" in Sage, northern Italy, Pound first expressed his support on the radio, and then hurriedly voted for Mussolini. He called Mussolini "Commander-in-Chief" and identified Mussolini as a "hero".
When Pound 1908 moved to London from America, with a bright red beard and a fine deerskin jacket, it should be said that the writer's commander arrived!
If the tone of English poetry in the 20th century and the effect of printing and reading are different from those in19th century, it should be said that a large part of the reason comes from Pound. His influence is not unilateral.
He spent a lot of time encouraging penniless young writers, such as Lawrence, Foster and Hemingway. He helps them find publications, write book reviews, and help them find money everywhere to pay their rent.
He helped Joyce publish Ulysses.
A bank clerk brought many poems, and he deleted one third. This is T.S. Eliot and The Waste Land. Is the origin of Nobel Prize in Literature.
As a result of World War I, Pound, like many intellectuals, believed that the main cause of modern war was the economic system: capitalism, and that western civilization was extremely corrupt and was swallowed up by the corrupt capitalist democratic system of political and economic integration. "pejorocray"-a word he created to describe this system, which comes from: derogatory-derogatory, democratic-democratic politics. For a time, he thought Lenin and Bolshevik had found the correct explanation, but he soon felt that the better guarantee and solution lay in fascism. He considers himself an expert in politics and economy. Although no one paid attention to him, he began to give orders to the world in the early 1930s. He is like a spoiled child, screaming and kicking around, and no one pays attention. It should be said that Pound finally found his big horn: Radio Rome.
For whatever reason, the prosecution made the case move quickly. Most of the time, the grand jury listened to the testimony of the psychiatrist and looked at Pound present. Pound was anxious and silent. In the end, it took the grand jury less than five minutes to conclude that Pound was mentally ill.
He has his own room. He can type all day. His output is amazing. He wrote 25 long poems in a mental hospital, translated The Great Learning, The Doctrine of the Mean and The Analects of Confucius (Mencius) in The Book of Songs and Four Books in Italian, translated some diaries of Mussolini, and translated a tragedy of Sophocles. At the same time, he quickly wrote articles for magazines and wrote thousands of anonymous letters. The anonymous letter avoided the evidence that the psychiatrist determined whether he was crazy or not.
It was not until 1957 that the public opinion and political bureau came to an end. An anthology of narrative poems "North of Boston" by the poet Frost (19 14) was successfully published in Britain. During his moving, he met Pound and Eliot, and then returned to American universities to teach and do research. His poems are completely different from most poets in the 20th century. He did not try and reform the form of poetry, but used the old form to express new content. ) and mcleish (1939- 1944, director of the library of congress, now a professor at Harvard university) took the lead in launching a lobbying storm against the Eisenhower administration. They say that many Nazi war criminals have been released from prison, and it is not good to lock up another person nominated by Nobel Prize in Literature.
1958 in April, the federal district court dropped the accusation of treason against Pound. But he can't legally sign checks or documents. 13 lived in a mental hospital and won the Bolingen Poetry Award, which greatly influenced the development of literary poetry. What an interesting irony!
He was in no hurry to leave the mental hospital because of a dental appointment. On May 7th this year, Pound's medical record No.58 102 was officially closed, with a note that the situation has not improved.