1908, Pound's first book of poetry, A Lume Spento, was published at his own expense in Venice, Italy. 1909, his poetry collection "Personae" was published in London. 19 10 years, his poetry collection "Romantic Spirit" was published. The contents of the anthology are mainly his early translations and the achievements and opinions of his academic research over the years. Pound showed his originality and profound knowledge in his early poems. 19 12 became a London-based reporter for the Chicago small magazine Poetry. He married Dorothy Shakespeare in 19 14.
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: Salute to Sextus Propertivs (19 19) and Hugh Cervin moberly (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, which 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 publish The Portrait of a Young Artist and Ulysses, helped Eliot sort out and abridge Pound's 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. 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 salons with hilda doolittle and richard aldington, and gained the support of many people, including D.H. Rau-Reno and william carlos williams. 1902, Pound defined imagi ***, 19 13 March, and he summarized several forbidden examples of imagi. 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, the vortex school (vortex * * *) came into being, but as an opinion, the vortex school 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.
Ezra Pound's poem The White Poppy
White poppies full of dreams,
Ah, white poppies are smarter than love,
I look forward to their lips.
When I saw them hiding
In the shadows
-This is a pine forest,
White poppies, they are white,
They are as white as white clouds over the forest,
Soon the stars will rise and chase them.
Ah, white poppies are smarter than love,
I came for peace, and then
I came to you to pursue peace.
My pursuit brings me
New sorrow.
White poppies full of dreams,
I look forward to their lips.
When I saw them hiding
In the shadows
-They're white-
If someone looks at me with old expectations,
How should I respond to her eyes?
I followed white people in the forest.
Yes, it is a long pursuit.
When I saw them, I was very eager.
Disappeared in the towering trees, flickering.
Oh, when love goes out in my heart,
How pathetic people are.