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Lu Wenchao (11/10/2008 10:06:00 PM)
This is perhaps the most famous poem written by Ezra Pound.I think the secert of the poem lies in the connection between the two sentence.The first sentence describes a sence of the morden life, that happens in a station of the metro, it is very common as a single sentence.The second sentence depicts a view of a nature, that happens after a rain.It is also not big suprise to us as a single setence.But when the two sentences combine together to make a poem, it generates the very abundent meaning.Especially we can compare the previous sence to the later sence, and we find that they are the same.That means the face is like the petals, which is live and beautiful.But the flower does not bloom in the sunshine but appear on a wet, black bough, which signify the atomsphere of destruction and death.This implies that we human beings may be so.We will die one day.So in this sense, we can see that in one part is the beauty of life, in the other side is the death of life, which combine to make a tragedy.This is only one aspect of the poem.In another sense, we can see that we human being creat the most advanced kind of life including the metro, we are different from the nature, but at the final point, we are the same, living in the shadow and light, and one day will disappear.This adds more climate of desperation to the poem. |
Bradley Nielsen (3/3/2008 5:27:00 AM)
I love this poem, it made me appreciate the imagist movement. |
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