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 Portrait of Young Artists and Ulysses, helped Eliot 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.
Pound was charged with treason in 1943 for the above reasons. 1944 was captured by American troops and imprisoned in Pisa, Italy. 1945 was taken to Washington for trial. 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 the poem, namely "Pisang Poems". 1949 This work won the Bolingen Poetry Award awarded by the Library of Congress with Eliot as the judge, which once caused great controversy in the United States.
Genre background
Imagism is a school of modern British and American poetry. Image is an objective image with subjective feelings and an inherent concept in China's classical literary theory. From the Book of Changes, Zhuangzi, The Book of Songs and Li Sao to Wen Xin Diao Long, Tang poetry and Tang and Song poetry, the image theory has experienced a long development process in theory and practice. At the beginning of the 20th century, under the rich, implicit and vivid influence of French symbolism and China's classical poetry, some writers and critics, represented by American poets Pound, Amy Lowell and English poets Thomas Hume and richard aldington, launched a poetry movement against abstract preaching and outdated themes and expressions. 19 12, pound adopted the name of Imagist for the first time. During the period of1915 ~1917, a collection of imagist poems was published every year. After Pound quit Imagism, Lowell continued to lead the activities of Imagism, and put forward six principles, namely, language should be popular and accurate, new rhythms should be created, themes should be completely free, poems should be written with images, and expressions should be concrete, concise and centralized. Later, Lowell added the principle of "be subtle, not straightforward". Their efforts to oppose1the stale English poetry style in the late 9th century with vivid images and short and pithy "Chinese-style" poetry style are of positive significance, but they pay attention to the form and skills of poetry and often ignore the social significance and ideological value of their works. After World War I, Imagist poets gradually parted ways, and this school gradually disintegrated. Around the October Revolution, Imagism was introduced to Russia, and the first batch of young poets and painters such as Ye Saining published the Imagism Declaration, formed a group and published Imagism magazines and poetry collections. The group was dissolved on 1927. In 1930s, British critic Caroline Sperzin published The Image of Shakespeare, which made a lot of research on the images in Shakespeare's plays and became the pioneer of imagism in Shakespeare's criticism. From the 1940s to the 1960s, new schools of poetry, such as image metaphysics represented by carl shapiro and John Malcolm and deep imagism represented by james wright and Louis Simpson, appeared in American poetry, indicating that imagism had a great influence on American poetry.
Ideological transformation
From 1924' s departure from Paris to the eve of World War II, Pound gradually turned his attention 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.
1958, through the mediation of archibald McLeish, Robert Frost and Ernest Mingwei, 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 ezra pound's letters (1907- 194 1), literary essays (1954) and selected essays (1909-0).
affect
Pound has made great efforts in promoting cultural exchanges between China and the West. His imagist works have absorbed some writing forms and characteristics of Japanese poetry, such as haiku poems. He expounded Confucius' theory in his long poem Poems, and collected and translated more than a dozen ancient poems of China published by 19 15. Pound doesn't know much about Chinese. His translation is from Japanese. Pound also translated The Great Learning, The Doctrine of the Mean and The Analects of Confucius. In the process of translation, Pound got help from some experts and scholars in Washington and overcame various difficulties. Although people can criticize this translation, Pound made an unprecedented attempt. In addition to translating China's works, Pound has also translated foreign literary works in Japanese, Greek, Italian and other languages. In this respect, Pound is also an accomplished translator.