The school of modern poetry, popular in British and American poetry circles at the beginning of the twentieth century, is famous for being regarded as the beginning of modern British and American poetry. The leader of this school is the American poet ezra pound. In addition, Ahldin, Tia and Flint in Britain, Doolittle and Fletcher in the United States are all important writers of this school. The representative figure in the later period is American poetess Amy Lowell. Although it originated in Britain, it has the greatest influence in the United States.
Imagism Party1Dissatisfaction with poetry creation since the late 9th century. Under the influence of French symbolism and China's classical poetry, a poetic movement against abstract preaching, academic style and outdated themes and forms of expression rose. Poetry is required to describe images and poets' psychology in a concise way, which embodies the basic characteristics of modern western poetry with "material poetry" as its main tendency. 19 15, Pound's three principles of imagist creation were published in Poetry magazine: first, directly deal with anything objective or subjective; Second, never use any words that are not conducive to performance; Third, the rhythm should be written as the continuity of musical phrases and so on. Pound also made it clear that "artists look for vivid details in their works and present them without any explanation", and thought that poetry should not be directly lyrical like romanticism, but should be regarded as an "emotional ejector" and an "emotional equation". Therefore, abstract words cannot be written in poetry. After 19 15, Pound withdrew from the Imagist because of internal differences. Later, Lowell revised the Manifesto of Imagism and put forward six principled propositions in theory: first, the language should be popular and accurate, not decorative words; Second, create new rhythms to express new poems; Third, the theme is completely free; Fourth, write poems with "images": fifth, the performance should be concrete, accurate and not abstract; Sixth, be concise. Later, Lowell added the principle of "be subtle, not straightforward". These propositions and principles show the artistic pursuit of imagism and have certain rationality. They strive to ensure the success of their own creation with vivid images and short and pithy "Chinese-style" poems, and even complete their works by overlapping images. Before and after the May 4th Movement, the Imagist School also had an influence on China's poems. At that time, some poems of Hu Shi, Wen Yiduo, Liu Dabai and others were similar in style to imagist works. Hu Shi also said in 19 16: "What this faction advocates is similar to what I advocate." This shows its extensive influence at that time. Of course, imagist poetry also has its obvious drawbacks, such as some poems are obscure, some are empty, and the content is poor. They only pursue the novelty and exquisiteness of poetry, ignore the social significance and ideological value of works, and tend to "art for art's sake".