According to Pound's own memory, once in Paris in 19 13, after he got out of the subway car from the treaty station, he suddenly saw a beautiful face, then a beautiful child's face, and then a beautiful woman.
On that day, I spent the whole day trying to find words that could express my feelings. I can't find words that I think can be compared with them, and I can't find words as lovely as that sudden emotion.
That night ... when I was still looking, I suddenly found an expression. It's not that I found some words, but that an equation appeared. ..... Not in words, but with many small color dots. ..... This "poetic imagery" is a form of superposition, that is, one concept is superimposed on another.
I found it very useful for me to get rid of the predicament caused by my emotions in the subway. I wrote a 30-line poem, and then ruined it ... Six months later, I wrote a poem half as short as the original; A year later, I wrote the following Japanese Wakayama poems.
Brief introduction of the author
Ezra pound (1885— 1972) was born in Idaho, USA. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania and Hamilton University successively, and obtained his master's degree at 1906. Pound went to Europe four times, launched the Imagist Poetry Movement, edited the Imagist publication Egocentrism and the first Imagist Poetry Selection.
He also helped Joyce to publish Ulysses, Eliot to sort out the first draft of The Waste Land, and Hemingway to publish his first book.
During World War II, Pound openly supported fascism and delivered hundreds of pro-fascist and anti-Semitic speeches on Rome Radio. After the war, Pound was arrested by the US military, charged with "treason" and later put in a mental hospital. 1958, Pound ended his imprisonment in a mental hospital for 12 years and returned to live in Italy until his death.