【正文】 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。I am old enough now to make friends.A. Indentify the poem and the poet.A Pact, Ezra PondB. What does the word “pact” mean?The word “pact” means “agreement”. C. Comment briefly on this stanza.In this lines Pound es to agree the importance of Walt Whitman although he has in the previous time rejected and attracted the achievements made by Whitman. Pound calls himself a grown child, which means he has matured so that he would like to take up what Whitman has left. The poem shows the undeniable position of Walt Whitman in American literature. (As time went by, Pound had realized that some agreement existed between “Whitmanesque” free verse, which he used to attack for its carelessness in position. He’d like to learn from the free verse and show respect to Whitman.)22. Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fritterer in New York – every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of purples halves. There was a machine in the kitchen which could extract the juice of two hundred oranges in half an hour