2. 天净沙 · 秋思 马致远 约 1250-1321 至 1324 间 枯藤老树昏鸦， 小桥流水人家， 古道西风瘦马。 夕阳西下， 断肠人在天涯。 断章 —— 卞之琳 你站在桥上看风景， 看风景的人在楼上看你。 明月装饰了你的窗子， 你装饰了别人的梦。 1935 年 10 月 ---How about American Poetry in the 20th century? so many images

3. The Main Features of Modern American Poetry

4. The beginning of modern American poetry in rebellion against Victorian poetry and against the conventional technique of the time. A poetic renaissance in the United States First issue of magazine Poetry (Chicago 1912) Modern American Poetry

5. Chicago poets Imagist New England poets break with the past Diversity is its major feature.

6. Representative poets: Chicago Poets Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) Edgar Lee Masters (1869-1950)

7. Whitmanesque free verse Focus on common labors and people (male power, city and so on) Main Features

8. ...... Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of Youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be Hog Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation. Chicago ( Carl Sandburg )

9. Imagist Representative poets: Ezra Pound (1885-1972) T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) Amy Lowell (1874-1925) William Carlos Williams (1883- 1963)

10. Reject traditional poetic form and meter and Victorian diction. Imagism ( express impressions through an image; produce free verse; use suggestion rather than complete statement. ) Main Features

11. Emphasize techniques such as fragmentation, ellipsis ( 省略 ), allusion （暗示）, juxtaposition （并 列）, ironic and shifting personae, and mythic parallelism

12. Strong and conscious break with traditional forms, perceptions, and techniques of expression,and its great concern with language and all aspects of its medium.

13. In a Station of the Metro (Ezra Pound) The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. 人群中这些面孔蓦然涌现, 湿漉漉墨色树枝上的花瓣.

14. New England Poets Representative poets: Robert Frost (1874-1963) Edward Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)

15. Main features: The subjects came from daily life of ordinary people. New England was the main setting of poetry. Their themes were about the wasted, blighted, or impoverished lives. They used the traditional verse forms and made their poems of modernist themes more easily understood by the public.

16. As a public event it gave expression to the values, the aspirations, and the pride of the community; As ritual it dignified the proceedings occasioning the poem; As language it had the power to inspire and entertain. Social Functions

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