Stylistic Analysis of Ezra Pound's Cathay

Cathay by Ezra Pound is the masterpiece in modern poetry in the West,and it contains nineteen Chinese poems.Based on literary stylistic theory,Pound’s translation style in Cathay is analyzed from lexical categories,aspects of syntax and figures of speech etc.It is found that the vocabulary and sentences in Cathay are very simple and brief,and the language is rich of images,which is the exact reflection of Pound’s idea of Imagism.

Ezra Pound＇s Conversion to Confucianism

The paper aims to explore Pound＇s early discovery of Confucianism and his conversion to Confucianism. Pound＇s interest in Confucianism coincided with the time when Christianity, already ＂contaminated＂ by ＂historical diseases＂ in Pound＇s view, could not offer a valid vision by which to guide the spiritual life, resulting in losing self in a modem society. Pound discovers three main deficiencies of Christianity： lack of respect for individuality, the decline of ethics, and open attack upon nature, which could not provide solutions to Western problems. Pound turned to Confucianism to search the existence of modem man in the face of society, and nature, which results in Pound＇s Confucian medicine to cure Western moral obtuseness.

The Function of Colour in Ezra Pound's Imagist Poetry

This paper is to explore the function of colour in Ezra Pound's Imagist poetry.As the position of image in poetry is raised,colour,as a part making up image,play a much more positive role in Pound's Imagist poems by defining the image to be more concrete and definite and reinforcing the theme directly.Pound's Imagist poetry includes his typical short Imagist poems and his poems in Cathay.

Yijing and Sense-Grammar as Possible Fields for Innovation of Modern English-Language Poetry,with Discussions on the Influence of Chinese Poetry on Ezra Pound and Imagism

尽管庞德和他的同伴们从中国传统诗歌中学到了不少东西,并且因此推动英语诗歌取得了巨大的创新成就,他们还是忽视了中国诗学中的许多精华,这限制了他们在创新方面的进一步发展。中国传统诗学中极有可能进一步推动英语诗歌发展的两个概念是：＂意境＂与＂会意语法＂。＂意境＂乃是由一群巧妙构思的意象所构成的一种五维诗意世界,而不是单个意象或者几个叠置意象,也不是几个按照时间顺序松散连接的意象。＂会意语法＂所反映的是人们在日常生活以及常识的基础上所形成的一种超越语法局限的对语言的理解能力。＂会意语法＂是创作好诗的关键所在,尤其是创作有深厚蕴涵的意境的诗歌的关键所在。

Confucian Thoughts in Ezra Pound＇s The Pisan Cantos

The Pisan Cantos （1948）, Ezra Pound＇s great epic, which reflects major social, cultural, and historical themes, is based on Western and Chinese cultures, especially Chinese Confucian thoughts. This paper attempts to provide an analysis of Confucian classics and Chinese characters/ideograms as cited in The Pisan Cantos, and to present the unique way in which Pound expresses his emotions and enriches his poetic art. Since, Chinese culture that emphases such concepts as ＂benevolence＂ and ＂sincerity＂ offers a more philosophical and poetical foundation to the cantos, it is understandable that The Pisan Cantos embodies Pound＇s ambition to reestablish the war-ruined Western world by Chinese Confucian thoughts, which he regards as an important foundation stone for establishing an idealistic regime

The Travelling Muse Cathay and the Influence of Chinese Classical Poems on Ezra Pound＇s Poetics＊

This paper intends to study Ezra Pound＇s early poetics and his modemist poetry through a close research of the Eastern elements in the shaping process of his poetics and the significance and influence of his poetic thoughts on the American New Poetry Movement. In order to clarify the essence of Pound＇s early poetics under the influence of Chinese classical poems, the paper starts from the discussion of the influence of Cathay （1915） and his translation of Cathay; then it provides a detailed analysis of the relationship between Chinese classical poems and Pound＇s creation; and finally it has given an analysis of ＂In a Station of the Metro＂. Pound absorbed different poetic concepts from all of them and transformed his poetry from the conventional Romanticism to the innovative Modemism. What Pound innovated in the poetry composition is of great importance if the new era wishes to shake off the banality and out-of-date tradition in literature. Pound changed a whole generation of poets and set a good example for those who desire to write in a new way

The Major Western Cultural Influences on the Incubating Process of Ezra Pound＇s Early Poetics

This paper intends to study Ezra Pound＇s early poetics and his modernist poetry through a close research of the various elements in the shaping process of his poetics, and the significance and influence of his poetic thoughts on the American New Poetry Movement. It studies firstly the early translations and romantic lyrics of Pound, trying to demonstrate that part of the influence on his early poetics is from the Western traditional cultural inheritance and that the emphasis on musicality that Pound inherited from traditional forms of poetry turns out to be one of the major principles that Pound advocates in his early poetics; then it comes to the discussion of the new translation concepts and poetics in ＂The Seafarer＂ （1911）, which is a great work Pound translated based on an Old English poem; next this paper will focus on the influence of Robert Browning＇s dramatic monologues and Yeats＇ Symbolism on Pound＇s transition from subjectivity to objectivity.

From the Poem ‘Blue,blue is the Grass’ to Explore the impact of Chinese Classical Poetry on Ezra Pound

Blue,blue is the grass,Ezra Pound's version of a classical Chinese poetry,has enjoyed great popularity in the English reading public since its coming out in 1915.Through his translation Pound brought freshness into English poetry on the one hand,and disseminated Chinese culture on the other.And these verses happened to be a great stimulus as the Renaissance from the Greeks to the imagist poetry movement.This paper aims at a penetrating analysis of the impact of Chinese classical poetry on imagist poet Ezra Pound.

重构儒家之“诚”:庞德真诚诗学及其共同体想象

“真诚”在庞德诗歌、翻译及评论中高频出现,是贯穿其创作生涯的核心准则和理想追求。通过拆解和重组儒家相关先行术语,庞德勾连“诚”的意义链条各环节,将儒家之“诚”重构为以自知为内核的概念复合体,为探究其真诚诗学提供微观入口。从“技艺检验真诚”到“文本话语的诚实”,庞德的真诚命题揭示其回归自我并精确表达自我的尝试,彰显其对中国文化的吸收及其诗学思想社会化倾向的加深。同时,庞德以古代中国为镜鉴,铺展共同体想象,回应现实问题与时代诉求,在中西文明交汇中追寻基于真诚的价值认同。以真诚为起点审视庞德诗学体系建构,对于厘清其诗学观嬗变及诗学革新实践、探析其中国情结与国际视野、熔铸中西共同体理念与价值共识,乃至破解当今人类面临的共生共存难题具有重要意义。

解构与重构——庞德汉诗译作在美国的经典化

庞德《华夏集》中的多数汉诗译作超越了中国本土学者的译作,在美国成为了经典。其汉诗译作最重要的特点便是对原作的解构与重构。通过对庞德译作中解构与重构现象的分析,发现这是庞德个人诗学与社会诗学相结合的过程。同时,一些其他因素如赞助人也推动了其汉诗译作的经典化。其经典化过程,给当下的翻译活动带来一定的借鉴与启发。

The Questing,Passive Gaze:Ezra Pound’s“Yeux Glauques,”John Ruskin,and the Pre-Raphaelite Moment

“Yeux Glauques,”the sixth poem of Ezra Pound’s 1920 Hugh Selwyn Mauberley,has been read as an indictment of Victorian viewers’and readers’rejection of Pre-Raphaelite art and poetry,a rejection proleptic of Georgian readers’rejection of Pound’s own innovations.This is largely accurate.But the poem’s citation(in its first stanza)of John Ruskin’s“Of Kings’Treasuries”can be read as directing readers’attention to Ruskin’s 1864 lecture,in part an exhortation to examine the etymologies of the words of the texts they read.Such an etymological examination of“glauques”in the poem’s title in effect reinforces a secondary implication of the poem as a whole:that the Pre-Raphaelite movement suffered from its members’failure to convincingly or feelingly represent active female subjectivity.

Ezra Pound's Zhi Ren and Confucian Self-cultivation

Ezra Pound quoted the Chinese characters zhi ren知人seven times in his stimulating book Guide to Kulchur.However,such frequently-recurring characters haven’t received enough attention from Pound scholars at home and abroad.The paper first illustrates the copious meanings of zhi ren and then explores Pound’s self-cultivation so as to reach the ideal state of human being—Ren仁.It proves that the seemingly insignificant Chinese characters zhi ren知人start Pound’s real exploration of the humanist ideology and deep contemplation of human nature.

Review and Analysis: Did the United States Transport, Off-Load and Use Commercial 2,4,5-T Herbicides with Unknown Amounts of Dioxin TCDD on Military Base Grounds in Panama Canal Zone between 1948 and 1999?

The 84 km Panama Canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans has historically been a strategic waterway for shipping and the location of United States (US) military bases. Since the construction of Lake Gatun reservoir, canal locks and navigation channel through the Isthmus of Panama tropical forests in the 1910s, chemicals, pesticides, and herbicides have been essential for controlling upland and wetland vegetation as well as managing mosquito-borne diseases. Chemicals and pesticides flowed into Lake Gatun via land surface runoff and subsurface drainage either attached to the sediment or in solution during the rainy season. Lake Gatun and the Panama Canal was the drinking water source for most of the civilian and military population living in the Panama Canal Zone. Between 1948 and 1999, US military base commanders had the ability to order, from the Federal Supply Catalog, commercially available herbicide 2,4,5-T with unknown amounts of dioxin TCDD for use on the military base grounds in the Panama Canal Zone. The herbicide 2,4,5-T was transported to Panama Canal Zone ports, including the ports Cristobal on the Caribbean and Balboa on the Pacific, and distributed to the US military bases in Panama by rail or truck. The US National Toxicology Program and the International Agency for the Research on Cancer listed dioxin and TCDD as known human carcinogens. Dioxins are endocrine disrupters and can cause certain chloracne, cancers, developmental and reproductive effects. In 1985, the United States government banned the manufacture of the herbicide 2,4,5-T, with unknown amounts of dioxin TCDD, after it was shown to cause cancer in animals. The objectives of this study are to determine: 1) the fate of dioxin TCDD, a contaminant in the herbicide 2,4,5-T, sprayed on the US military base vegetation in the Panama Canal Zone from 1948 to 1999, 2) the transport of dioxin TCDD rich sediment via soil erosion and overland flow into Lake Gatun and Panama Canal waterways and 3) the human health impacts of dioxin TCDD, a known carcinogen, on US military and Panamanian civilians exposed to dioxin TCDD in the Panama Canal Zone.

论庞德《华夏集》的翻译诗学意义

自《华夏集》问世以来,中外学者试图多角度解读其误读、误译。美国诗人埃兹拉·庞德(以下简称庞德)在翻译《华夏集》时不懂中文,其翻译是借助厄内斯特·费诺罗萨的笔记对古诗词进行的创译。以《华夏集》中的李白译诗为研究对象,通过对原文、费氏笔记和译文的三向对比,探讨庞德的诗学主张如何使其有意偏离费氏笔记,创译了李白诗歌。庞德的创译具有世界文学性翻译诗学意义,使英语诗歌的主题、手段与意象呈现出新奇化,丰富了英语诗歌形式库,实现了目标语文化的诗学革新。中国古诗词也因此进入20世纪西方读者的视野。

汉诗英译的“绝对节奏”与“可变音步”--以《长干行》两译本为例

李白的《长干行》深受二十世纪初美国诗人、学者们的青睐。相较于庞德《长干行》译诗的广为人知,尽管威廉斯《桂树集》中的译诗《长干行》也富于特色,但学界对其尚不够重视。倘立足庞德与威廉斯各自诗歌创作语境,会发现两版《长干行》的翻译策略迥异。庞德的“绝对节奏”译诗策略联结主体情感与智性两极,威廉斯的“可变音步”策略终极指向也是主体之“思”,但较之庞德的“绝对节奏”,威廉斯的“可变音步”意欲更有效贴合现时的现实生活世界。两种翻译策略背后,浓缩的毋宁是美国自由诗音乐性的嬗变。

A Cultural Analysis of Pound's Mistranslation in the Poem "Blue, blue is the Grass

Ezra Pound is one of the founders of the American Imagist poetry, and Chinese Classic Poetry happened to be a great stimulus as the Renaissance from the Greeks to this poetry movement. Pound, who was deeply fascinated by Chinese poetry, has rendered many into English. Yet due to cultural differences, Pound’s translation has a lot of mistakes. And this paper aims at a cultural analysis of the mistranslation on a certain text to display its influence upon the Imagist Movement in the history of American Poetry.

比较语境中的误读与发明——推求徐复观、叶维廉、高友工、方东美等学者重建中国美学的若干策略

徐复观、叶维廉、高友工、方东美等中国学者在研究中不约而同地将西学作了有意无意的误读式援引、转换或整合,并指向发明中国问题,这种不免有所取舍的操作,或许可理解为这些学人为了创设发明中国问题之语境而采取的一种比较和解释的策略。有意思的是,庞德和海德格尔等西方学者也是以本民族文化为本位来取用东方资源的,在资源的选择和取用目的上都受到他们自己理论目标的牵引而未必做到忠实。东西方学者在比较视野中对对方资源的取用和援引策略,形成了某种互文的效果,可以让中国人更深刻地体认到中国传统的某些特出的好处。以体为尊,在比较中互相发明,是比较语境的本质所在。

埃兹拉·庞德对李白诗歌的西化

庞德与中国古典诗歌有着密不可分的关系,而李白诗歌是影响和推动庞德发动"意象派"运动的主要动力。可以说,庞德有着深深的李白情结,李白诗歌是庞德灵感的源泉。但从另外一个角度来看,庞德对李白诗歌同样有着巨大的推动作用。庞德将李白的诗歌西化并提炼了李白的文学观,将李白的诗歌提升到了诗学理论的高度;庞德从李白的诗歌中汲取营养,将李白的诗歌技巧发挥到了极致;更重要的是,庞德扩大了李白诗歌的影响范围,将李白的诗歌从汉语领域翻译到英语领域,并使之在欧美世界广为传播。