From Vorticism to Impersonality Theory: A Contrastive Study of Poetics Between Ezra Pound and T S Eliot

Both Ezra Pound and T.S.Eliot are representatives of the imagist poetry at the beginning of 20' century.With Pound's impact on Eliot's early composition,they have finally formed diverse poetics systems.A contrastive analysis of their poetics and poems is conducted to reveal dissimilarities between them.Pound,in favor of concise and graceful images,emphasizes the governing theme of a poem as a vortex and the construction of poetry in the form of Fugue,so as to approach the oriental poetry spirit.In a contrast,T.S.Eliot's impersonality,deeply affected by French Symbolism,tends to integrate thought and sensibility into the objective correlative,and endeavors to formulate complicated symbolic systems constituted by object images to express the universal emotion of humanity by constraining the subjective convey of emotion.In a chaotic world,both Pound and Eliot attempt to reshape the consistency of arts.