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Confucian Thoughts in Ezra Pound’s The Pisan Cantos
WANG Gui-ming
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2013.10.001
Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China
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.
Ezra Pound, The Pisan Cantos, Confucian thoughts, The Book of Four, Chinese ideogram
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