美国文学选读 二十世纪美国诗人.pptx

Ezra Pound;Imagism?;In a Station of the Metro;Wallace Stevens;Anecdote of the Jar ;Langston Hughes;demonstrates?jazz-like rhythm or the feel of improvisation The significance of the simultaneous evolution of poetry and jazz during the 1920s was apparent to many poets of the era, resulting in the merging of the two art forms into jazz poetry.? Jazz poetry has long been something of an outsider art form that exists somewhere outside the mainstream, having been conceived in the 1920s by African-Americans, maintained in the 1950s by?counterculture?poets like those of the?Beat generation, and adapted in modern times into?hip-hop music?and live poetry events known as?poetry slams.;The Harlem Renaissance;Hold fast to dreams?? For if dreams die Life is a broken winged bird? That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams? For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.;My old mule, He’s got a grin on his face. He’s been a mule so long He’s forgot about his race. I’m like that old mule— Black—and don’t give a damn! You got to take me Like I am.;I used to wonder About living and dying— I think the difference lies Between tears and crying. I used to wonder About here and there— I think the distance Is nowhere.