Abstract:
The Pisan Cantos, an outstanding part of Ezra Pound’s masterpiece, The Cantos, has been hailed as one monumental work of American modernist poetry today. The Pisan Cantos basically shares the conspicuous intertextual styles, which mirrors Pound’s magnificent but pessimistic dreams. Meanwhile, the work implies the intricate traces of parody, which reveals a metaphorical interpretation of the complicated social realities through ridiculing the historical stories as well as the classical legends. Accordingly, The Pisan Cantos is a condensed demonstration of Pound’s remarkable talents and striking personalities. His masterly fulfillment of intertextuality and parody, as we can observe from his unique forms, is primarily presented as the distinctive aspects like invisible writing, polyphonic expression, deconstruction of cultural logos, fragmentalization of grand narrations, etc.
