意象主义和漩涡主义理论的中国背景

美国著名诗人、学者庞德一生最为重要的诗学理论是意象主义和漩涡主义。国内外学界主流一般认为庞德是在提出意象主义理论之后,才偶尔发现费诺罗莎笔记中的中国诗歌正好符合其诗学理论的。他们忽略了这一事实:庞德在获得费诺罗莎的笔记之前已经接触到中国诗歌,他所提出的意象主义诗歌主张中有关诗歌节奏、诗歌用词等的理论都受到来自中国的深刻影响;而且庞德从意象主义转向漩涡主义也源于他对于中国诗歌认识的变化。因此,庞德的意象主义和漩涡主义理论具有明显的中国背景。

The Chinese Background of Imagism and Vorticism

The most important poetic theories of the famous American poet and scholar Ezra Pound are Imagism and Vorticism.The mainstream of the academic circles at home and abroad maintain the view that Pound found Chinese poetry are absolutely in accordance with his Imagist Theory while reading Ernest Fenollosa's notes on Chinese poetry after he had invented Imagism,implying that Pound's Imagist ideas were not influenced by Chinese poetry.Yet they neglected the fact that Pound had read Chinese Poetry before he ever received the noteboos of Ernest Fenollosa.And a careful study shows that the key ideas of poetic rhythm and poetic diction of Imagism bear clear influence from China.Besides,it is proved that Pound tranferred from Imagism to Vorticism mainly because the change of his understanding of Chinese poetry.It is thus concluded that both Pound's Imagism and Vorticism bear definite Chinese influences.