我们将学习二十世纪大多数重要诗人的主要英文诗歌，尤其强调一战后的幻灭和二战早期的国际主义（约1918－1940年）。本学期的重点将是“意象＂这个概念在这时期是如何演化的。战争削弱了人们对主要作品中民族主义和帝权的信仰，以及支撑它们的语言体系（宗教的先验主义，理性主义以及形式主义）。二十世纪诗人从上世纪的象征主义者的运动中重获力量，开始重新思考如何用意象来传递信息，以及视觉、幻想和语言的意象以何种方式取代先验主义信仰。在艺术和宗教的意象中，语言学和人类学的新理论促进了该影响的发展。弗洛伊德，查理 卓别林的电影也发挥了同样作用。

We'll read the major poems by the most important poets in English in the 20th century, emphazinig especially the period between post-WWI disillusionment and early WW II internationalism (ca. 1918-1940). Our special focus this term will be how the concept of "the Image" evolved during this period. The War had undercut beliefs in master-narratives of nationalism and empire, and the language-systems that supported them (religious transcendence, rationalism and formalism). Retrieving energies from the Symbolist movements of the preceding century, early 20th century poets began to rethink how images carry information, and in what ways the visual, visionary, and verbal image can take the place of transcendent beliefs. New theories of linguistics and anthropology helped to advance this interest in the artistic/religious image. So did Freud. So did Charlie Chaplin films.

我们要读的诗歌关注到这种幻灭，也关注对意象重新且快乐的注意：关注诗人是语言之牧师，唯美经历是被取代的宗教冲动的想法，关注如同信仰、仪式和形式的诗歌。

We'll read poems that pay attention both to this disillusionment and to the compensatory joyous attention to the image: to ideas of the poet-as-language-priest, aesthetic-experience-as-displaced-religious impulse, to poetry as faith, ritual, and form.