Free Ver: is poetry that is bad on irregular rhythmic cadence（抑扬顿挫，节奏） recurring ,with variations of phras ,image ,and syntactical patterns rather than the conventional u of meter . In other word ,free ver has no rhythm scheme, pattern or line length, new form, new subject, message was always more important than form .However ,much poetic language and devices（手段，策略） are found in free ver .
It is ud in Walt Whitman’s poems.
L香菇小油菜ocal Colorism: is defined by Hamlin Garland加兰 in his Crumbling Idols as having “such quality of texture（手感，质感） and background that is could not have been written in any other place or by anyone el than a native”
T孕期三个月exture refers to the elements which characterize（是---特征，以----为特征） a local culture , elements such as speech , customs , and mores peculiar to one particular place.
Background covers physical身体 tting and tho distinctive qualities of landscape which human thought and behavior.
Other definition: a trend first made its prence felt in the late 1860s and early 1870s in America. It may be defined as the careful attention in speech, dress or behavior peculiar to a geographical locality.
The ultimate aim of the local colorists is to create the illusion错觉，幻想月度计划 of an indigenous土生土长的，固有的 little word with qualities that tell it apart from the world outside.
Major Local Colorists: Mark Twain; Hamlin Garland (Main Travelled Roads)
Imagism: 1) It is a Movement in U.S and English poetry characterized by the u of concrete明确的，实体的language and figures of speech, modern subject matter主旨, metrical韵律 freedom, and avoidance of romantic or mystical themes, aiming at clarity of expression through the u of preci精确的visual看得见的 images.
2) It grew out of the symbolism movement in 1912 and was initially led by Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell, and others.
3) The Imagist manifesto宣言 came out in 1912 showed three Imagist poetic principles:
A: Direct treatment of the “thing” whether subject or objective.
B: To u absolutely no word that does not contribute to the prentation.
C: As regarding rhythm: to compo创作 in the quenc鹞子高三e有关联的一组事物, 一连串of musical phra, not in quence of a metronome节拍器.
4) Pound defined the image as that which prents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time, and later he extended this definition when he started that an image was “a vortex旋窝 or cluster串 of fud熔化; 融合ideas, endowed with energy”夏目图片.
5) The existed great influence in Chine少女写真 poetry on the movement of Imagism. Imagists found value in Chine poetry was becau Chine poetry is, by virtue长处 of the ideographic象形文字 and pictographic nature of Chine language, esntially imagistic poetry.
The Lost Generation: is a term ud to describe a group of American intellectuals知识分子, poets, artists and writers fled to France in the post WW1 years to reject the values of American materialism唯物主义 and to ek the bohemian(放浪者怎样才能学习好)(a person with artistic or literary interests who disregards conventional standards of behavior) lifestyle in Pairs. Full of youthful idealism, the individuals sought the meaning of life, drank excessively, had love affairs and created some of the finest American literature to date.
Refers to the disillusioned使不再抱幻想 intellectuals and aesthetes审美家 of the years following WW1, who rebelled against former ideals and values but could replace them only by despair or a cynical愤世嫉俗的 hedonism(快乐主义).
曹操观沧海The main reprentatives 代表人of Lost Generation include F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and so on.
Modernism: is a culture movement that is generally includes the progressive不断有进展的 art and architecture建筑学, design, literature, music, painting ,dance and other visual arts which emerged in the beginning of 20th century, particular in the years following WW
1. It was a movement of artists and designers who rebelled against the 19th century academic and historicist tradition, and embraced信奉，拥抱 the new economic, social and political aspects of the emerging modern world.
Modernism in literature is not easily to summarized, but the key elements are experimentation, anti-realism, individualism and a stress on the cerebral诉诸理性的;非感情方面的rather than emotive-aspects.
The avant-garde革新者 movements that followed-including Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Cubism立体派, Futurism未来主义, Expressionism, Constructivism构成主义 and Abstract抽象 Expressionism are generally defined as Modernist.
