Poetry For Dummies by The Poetry Center & John Timpane

Author:The Poetry Center & John Timpane
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Wiley Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2013-02-06T03:31:31+00:00

Published in 1923, this poem had much to say both about the chaotic state of Yeats’s Ireland and about the state of the world. It is a horror movie of the soul. The music, as in all Yeats, is unearthly and gorgeous.

Ezra Pound

The American poet Ezra Pound helped the rest of the century’s poets “make it new” (a favorite saying of his). Influenced by Chinese and Japanese poetry, Pound wrote poetry focused on the image (a concentrated moment of revelation, epiphany, or complex emotion), showing the occasion for emotion but not talking about it. Perhaps the best example is his poem “In a Station of the Metro”:

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