Unit10西方文化导论.pptVIP

Text Study _IV_1.1 Main Ideas Text Study Main Ideas Text Study _IV_1.2 Main Ideas Text Study Main Ideas Text Study _IV_1.2 Main Ideas Text Study Main Ideas Text Study _IV_1.2 Main Ideas Text Study Main Ideas Text Study _IV_1.2 Main Ideas Text Study Main Ideas Text Study _IV_1.3 Main Ideas Text Study Main Ideas Text Study _IV_1.4 Main Ideas Text Study Main Ideas Supplementary Resources Supplementary Resources_ main 1. Further Reading Supplementary Resources 2. Reference Books Supplementary Resources Supplementary Resources_I_1.1 Passage 1 Pound and Imagism The art of creating an object-like structure in words was taken virtually to its limit in this famous poem　In a Station of the Metro: The apparition of these faces in the crowd: Petals, on a wet, black bough. The poem itself perhaps requires little commentary. Like a Romantic lyric, it attempts to capture a moment of heightened aesthetic awareness, but it does so with a pronounced economy of means. There is no “poet” present, no “I”, not even a main Passage 1 Supplementary Resources Supplementary Resources_I_1.2 Passage 1 verb. Instead there is just a location given, in the title, an image of faces brie?y evoked, and, by means of a juxtaposition (并列), a further image introduced which serves as a simile or analogue of the first. Although Pound remarks in his commentary on this poem that “it is meaningless unless one has drifted into a certain vein of thought”, in fact the opposite could be asserted: that such a work demands very little in the way of emotional assent or intellectual participation from the reader. It is what it is: a juxtaposition Passage 1 Supplementary Resources Supplementary Resources_I_1.3 Passage 1 juxtaposition of images of the starkest kind. While we can adduce a certain type of aesthetic emotion on the part of the poet whom we imagine undergoing this experience in the Parisian Metro, this remains not only understated but unstated, a mere possibility left, undiscussed, in th