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the encyclopedic epic poem The Cantos.3. works(1) resurrection.The impression is brought out most vividly by the single, dominant image of flower petals on a wet, black bough, which serves as the most concise, direct and definite metaphor for the “faces in the crowd.This poem shows the influence of Chinese poetry on the Imagist movement and on Pound.“A Pact”It reflects Pound’s understanding amp。同居長干里,兩小無嫌猜。苔深不能掃,落葉秋風早。 falling leaves passing years amp。 noise as sorrowful. The first three lines of this final 11line stanza are centered on the image of the rivermerchant39。 In line 22 the sadness of the rivermerchant39。s activity at the front gate, as well as the little boy39。感此傷妾心,坐愁紅顏老。低頭向暗壁, 千喚不一回。 optimistic attitude to life. But Pound gradually recognize Whitman’s contribution to the form and content of American poetry, and the influence to Pound and other poets. So Pound’s attitude to Whitman turned from disgust to acceptance.In his 1909 essay “What I Feel About Walt Whitman”, In the past, he had distaste for Whitman’s expansive selfsinging struggles. Now he had an even more powerful conviction that Whitman is America. Whitman does “chant the crucial stage” and he is the “voice triumphant. In the end, Pound subordinates the superficial quarrel with Whitman’s poetic means to the profound bond of their mon origin and message. Whitman is to America what Dante is to Italy。 Language: intricate and obscure(2) Cantos(3) To use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation。2. An image is defined by Pound as that which presents an intellectual and emotional plex in an instant of time, “a vortex or cluster of fused ideas” “endowed with energy”. The exact word must bring the effect of the object before the reader as it had presented itself to the poet’s mind at the time of writing.IV. Participants(2) Spiritually: dislocation, fragmentation.b) IntroductionThe 1920s is a flowering period of American literature. It is considered “the second renaissance” of American literature.The nicknames for this period:(1) Economically: became rich from WWI. Economic boom: new inventions. Highlyconsuming society.(2) Features of the literatureWriters: three groups(1) Development: three stages1. 1908~1909: London, Hulme2. 1912~1914: England America, Pound3. 1914~1917: Amy LowellIII. Chinese poetry. He married Dorothy Shakespear in 1914 and became London editor of the Little Review in 1917. In 1924,