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����In his capacity as both a theorist and a practitioner of translation, particularly with his creative translation of Chinese classical poems into English, Ezra Pound had contributed significantly to the growth of translation worldwide and given quite an impetus to the development of modern English poetry. Pound ad·vocates the method of creative translation to translate classical Chinese poetry. The creative translation is�� firstly, to throw away the obscure expression and translate ancient poetry with contemporary words. Secondly, good translation is itself a work with independent meaning. The translator should understand the original work with experience and idea in modern time in order to represent the form and its content. Thirdly, the translation should be regarded as assessment of the original work and the act of translation as a way to criticize literature work. Pound advo·cates using the method of creative translation to translate the un- translatable of poetry in order to represent the true feeling behind translatable of poetry in order   to represent the true feeling behind the lines. Owing to the differences between the Chinese and the Western criteria for evaluating translational works, however, Pound’s renderings of Chinese classical poems have not been suf·ficiently appreciated by translation scholars in China, and his theory of creative translation has fared even worse in this coun·try. To do justice to Pound, this paper takes a close look at his translational theory, offering a detailed analysis of some of his translations from Cathay and The Confucian Odes (Shijing).