【正文】 of fragmentation and dislocation. 2)The imagists, with Ezra Pound leading the way, hole that the most effective means to express these momentary impressions is through the use of one dominant image. The image is a representation of a physical object, and the reader is made to react to it. 3)Imagism is characterized by the following three poetic principles: a)direct treatment of “the thing”, whether subjective or objective。 b)to use absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation。 c)as regards rhythm, to pose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in the sequence of metronome. 4)Ezra Pound’s In a Station of the Metro is a wellknown imagist poem.30. Transcendentalism: 1)Transcendentalism has been defined philosophically as “the recognition in man of the capacity of knowing truth intuitively, or of attaining knowledge transcending the reach of the senses”. 2)Transcendentalists stress the importance of the Oversoul, the Individual and nature. Other concepts that acpanied Transcendentalism include the idea that nature is ennobling and the idea that the individual is divine and, therefore, selfreliant. New England Transcendentalism is the product of a bination of native American Puritanism and European Romanticism. 31. What is “The Lost Generation”?1)It is a term first used by Gertrude Stein to describe the post –World War I generation od American writers: men and women haunted by a sense of betrayal and emptiness brought about by the destructiveness of the war. 2)Full of youthful idealism, these individuals sought the meaning of life, drank excessively, had love affairs and created some of the finest American literature to date. 3)The three best known representatives of Lost Generation are F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos. 4)Others usually included among the list are Sherwood Anderson, Kay Boyle, Hart Crane, Ford Maddox Ford and Zelda Fitzgerald.32. Please interpret Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”?1)The poem is written in classic fiveline stanzas, with the rhyme scheme abaab and conversational rhythm. The poem seems to be about the poet, walking in the woods in the autumn, choosing which road he should follow on his walk. In reality, it concerns the important decisions which one must make in life, when one must give up one describe things in order to posses another. Then, whatever the oute, one must accept the consequences of one’s choice for it is not possible to go back and have another chance to choose differently. 2)In the poem, the poet hesitates for a long time, wondering which road to take, because they are both pretty. In the end, he follows the one which seems to have fewer travelers on it. Symbolically, he choose to follow an unusual, solitary life。 perhaps he was speaking of his choice to bee a poet rather than some moner profession. But he always remembers the road which he might have taken, and which would have given him a different kind of life. 33. What kind of person is Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby?Gatsby is a typical Everyman in the Jazz Age. His dream partakes of the state of mind that embodies American itself. He wants to be rich starting from nothing by earnest working. However, he does this by bootlegging. His failure and death mean the end of the American Dream.