Quotes: "Pain only hurts." - Scott Jurek "The best way out is always through." - Robert Frost "how can we know the dancer from the dance" - William Butler Yeats "Wanting to be someeone else is a waste of who you are." Kurt Cobain "Long distance running is 90% mental and the other half is physical.” Rich DavisQuotes: "Pain only hurts." - Scott Jurek "The best way out is always through." - Robert Frost "how can we know the dancer from the dance" - William Butler Yeats "Wanting to be someeone
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Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams both comment in a theoretic way on the nature of poetry. Outline briefly their theories. Then discuss the implications their theories have for the writing and reading of poetry‚ and support your argument with a number of specific examples from their poems. I have structured this essay so that the first part deals entirely with the theories and poetry of Ezra Pound and the second‚ entirely with the theories and poetry of William Carlos Williams. Each part
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The four great Modernists Poets of American Literature are Ezra Pound‚ T. S. Elliot‚ Robert Frost‚ and William Carlos Williams. The works of Pound‚ whose poetry focused mainly on the desolate state of the modern world‚ influenced by the poems of the other three poets. Elliot‚ too‚ made the ruin of the world his primary theme Frost whose topics ranged from nature to narratives‚ wrote his poetry in a somewhat light manner‚ or with a cool‚ neutral outlook. Williams‚ although not prone to sentimentalism
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Appreciation of Ezra Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro” In a Station of the Metro is an observation of the poet of the human faces seen in a Paris’s subway station in which the faces turned variously toward light and darkness. The poet‚ Ezra Pound‚ was famous for advocating free meter and a more economical use of words and images in poetic expression. He is also one of the leaders of the Imagist Movement of poetry. He advocated to use sharp‚ accurate‚ implicative and concise images to express concrete
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I. What the essay is going to be about? Including the main point that you’re going to make. “Pound explains that‚ in order for poetry to remain “fresh‚” it must stay news. He suggests that there are these poetic elements that can keep a poem “new.” Logopoeia‚ which _____ ii. Melopoeia (meter should never sound like a metronome‚ it should force you to read in a particular way) weird meter iii. phanopoia – paints a pretty picture‚ give examples iv logopoeia – idea of alchemy‚ PAGE 37 and
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Mathes Modernism Short Pondering Ezra Pound It is probable that the most striking thing of note to be found in Pound’s “A Retrospect” is not his elaborate gripes‚ complaints and suggestions‚ but rather his list of what should not be done. Pound considers the “Image” or subject piece of writing to be the primary focus (4). It is this to which a writer should devote his time and not the allure of distractions or influences made by other people or works. Pound does not mean to say that criticism
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on modern people and everyday situations in the simplest of words. But how did the events and people in his lifetime influence the way Williams wrote poetry? William Carlos Williams poetry was heavily influenced by the modernist era‚ poet‚ Ezra Pound‚ Imagism‚ and his many European travels. As a poet‚ novelist‚ and physician‚ born in Rutherford New Jersey‚ William Carlos Williams developed an understandable and meaningful style of poetry. He first went to school in Geneva‚ Switzerland‚ and later
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Aphoristic style- the use of sentances or phrases within a larger essay or speech (usually persuasive) that stand out as memorable statements (aphorisms) in themselves. What we obtain cheap‚ we esteem too lightly Tyranny‚ like hell‚ is not easily conquered These are times that try men’s souls The harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph Through the flame of liberty may cease to shine‚ the coal can never expire. It matters not where you love‚ or what rank of life you hold
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Ezra Pounds battle cry “Make it new” influenced many young writers and poets of the early 1900’s. Shocked by the behavior of civilization during World War 1‚ the poets were no longer content with the popular genteel poetry of the day. Genteel poetry combined regular rhymes and meter with comfortable topics such as sunsets‚ cows and woods‚ as seen in the popular poem “ The Woods that bring the Sunset Near”: The woods from the west is blowing The homeward – wandering cows are lowing
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Ralph Ellison Imagism Rejected sentimentality and cloudy verbiage and aimed for new clarity in short lyrical poems. They believed images carry the poem. Meaning happens in the air. Imagism There were four basic rules of the movement: 1. use the common language of speech 2. use the exact word 3. images in poetry should be "hard and clear" 4. Write in free verse. Imagism Authors include Ezra Pound‚ Amy Lowell‚ William Carlos Williams‚ Hilda Doolittle Imagism Ran from about 1912-1917
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