“It was you that broke the new wood,
Now is a time for carving.
We have one sap and one root—
Let there be commerce between us.”
Questions:
A．Whom does the “us” refer to?
B．What does the phrase “broke the new wood ” mean here?
C．What is the intention of the poet in writing the poem “A Pact” from which these lines are taken?
【正确答案】：A.Whitman and Pound(the Imagists)
B.Made experiments with the conventions of the traditional poetry
C.In this poem, Pound started to find some agreement between "Whitmanesque"free verse, which he had attacked for its carelessness in composition, and the "verse libre"of the Imagists who showed more concern for formal values.
