Jomantara International Journal of Art and Culture
Vol 2 No 1 (2022): Vol. 2 No. 1 January 2022

Imagism of Chinese Poem: A Literary Study on Ezra Pound’s Poetry

Zixi Li (Indiana University)



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Publish Date
30 Jan 2022

Abstract

Imagism aims at creating poetry as art, pursuing the clarity and beauty of language, and implying personal emotions via images. While Imagism brings the most influential change in English literature, Chinese traditional poetry with its unique cultural and historical-style stands out in world literature with rich emotional expression through images. This literary study compares Ezra Pound’s imagist poems with classical Chinese poetry, reviewing his translations of Chinese. To scrutinize the data, a qualitative research method that covers document analysis techniques was implemented comprehensively. The research reveals that Pound’s translated Chinese poems build a strong bond between the two cultures. Chinese traditional poems and Imagism poems share their love of descriptive language, a passion for accurate detail creation, joyfulness towards metaphor, analogy, personification, and other writing techniques, while they all conserve their own art form and identities

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jomantara

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Arts Humanities Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences Other

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Journal Jomantara is a peer reviewed International e-Journal written in English. It is published in two issues per year (January and July). The purpose of the journal is to bring a wide spectrum of participants to disseminate research findings of academicians, national and local government units, ...