Ezra pound's Contribution Value

1948 The subtitle of Nobel Prize in Literature winner T·S· Eliot's famous long poem The Waste Land is "Dedicated to the most outstanding craftsman ezra pound", which was revised by Pound himself. As one of the founders of modernist literature recognized in Europe and America, Pound has great influence on artistic creation and critical theory. The main work is a grand long poem, covering human civilization. Published in batches from 19 17 to 1959 in the form of poems, including 109 poems and 8 unfinished drafts. 1969 published some fragments of the unfinished draft. These poems are obscure, with a wide range of themes and diverse and unique techniques, which are important topics for long-term research by academic schools. Among them, chapter 1 ~ 7 discusses the composition and significance of poetry, chapter 8 ~1tells the story of a Venetian general and an art patron, and chapter 12 ~ 13 compares the modern western social order with the moral ideal of Confucius in China./kloc-. Chapter 4 1 praises Mussolini, and chapter 62 ~ 7 1 studies American President john adams and his Pisa poems written in American prison camps, describing his mental journey as a war criminal through the "night of the soul", and so on. The main characteristics of his thought are: opposing capitalist industrial civilization and western orthodox cultural domination (including English literary dogma, Jews and literary censorship), and emphasizing drawing lessons from the wisdom of the East and the wealth of ancient civilizations (such as ancient poems of China and Egypt, japanese theatre, Confucian philosophy, ancient Roman art, Jefferson's democratic ideal of physiocratism, etc.). ), thus creating a beautiful world full of humanity, advocating art, multi-cultural coexistence, sheltered and led by individual wisdom savior. In poetry theory, Pound once put forward the concepts of image poetry and "vortex theory", which broke the strict structure of traditional poetry, promoted the historical breakthrough and development of modern poetry forms in Britain and the United States, and made great progress in broadening horizons, seeking success and innovation, and absorbing oriental and ancient cultures. Pound was also one of the western poets who promoted Chinese civilization and translated and introduced China's ancient poems.