Research On Ezra Pound's Poetics

Imagist verse emerged as a rebel against the Victorian poetic style. Though the imagist principle is a brand-new poetic theory, it attaches much importance to the traditional literary resources and Fenellosa's notion of the "ideogram" taken from Chinese characters helps Pound establish his own principle of images. To fully analyze the concept of "image", it is essential to carry out the intertextual interpretation of the sporadic theoretical writings and the representative works of the imagists and distinguish from the "image" in the Chinese ancient poetic beauty. To find out Pound's complicated linguistic concept in "the three principles of image" is the right direction of evaluating the imagist poetics. According to the modernist theory of Fredric Jameson, there is no such thing as breakdown between so-called "modern" and "pre-modern", which is evidenced by Pound's dual narrative of modern poetics by paying full attention to the literary tradition. It is meaningful to study the issue on the ground that the Chinese New Poetry writing is confronted with a variety of problems: lack of standard, evasion of the writing difficulties and literary canonization.