Pound

I was born on a warm day on Tuesday July 18th, 2000 in Germany. My family was living in Germany because we followed my dad there when he got stationed there for the marines. I was a 10 pound baby when I was born, so my mom called me her 10 pound butterball and her miracle. My mom calls me her miracle because when I was born I had a blood infection, so that caused me to be purple. I had to stay in an incubator for 3 week. My mom wasn’t allowed to hold me in those three weeks. All she could do was…

traditional conventions in art and poetry. This movement emerged in the early 20th century and its main representatives are Ezra Pound, H.D., William Carlos Williams, and James Joyce among others. The main characteristics of Imagism were written down by Ezra Pound in an article published in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse in 1913 with the title of: ‘A Few Dont’s by an Imagiste’ in which Pound describes the steps to follow and to avoid when writing an imagist poem. Some of the rules are: use of a…

Perusing the Amazon online bookstore left me feeling very anxious. There were a total of 200,000 different diet books to choose from and I needed to find the perfect one to ensure it fit the criteria. Finally, I chose “How to Lose 10 Pounds in a Week” by Jenny Allen. Just by the name, you are probably saying to yourself, “wow, this is a total farce; a complete joke”. After reading it although, the author brought up many good points to try and lose weight, but she did so using the most extreme…

Pound Background • He was one of the most influential poets of this period. • “He generously encouraged other poets…helping them publish and writing reviews of their work,” (pg. 1598). • He “organized the imagists, the first modernist literary group in England and the United States,” (pg. 1598). • He was awarded the Bollingen Prize for “his Pisan Cantos (1948), written while he was in prison in Italy, and he later received the American Poets Award,” (pg. 1599). Connections • He was connected to…

Imagism was a literary movement that began in the early 20th century. This movement has its roots in the artistic world where its main aim was to avoid the old conventions and find new ways of creativity. Poets such as Ezra Pound, H.D. and William Carlos Williams tried to create a way of expressing the imagism in painting through words in poetry. This movement as contemporary art repudiates ‘beauty’ standards, and the Romanticism of the 19th-century while it admires the quotidian, the perceptual…

Poetry is the abundance of life and the most incarnate of languages we use, expressing ourselves in a free and unrestricted form — this is what Ezra Pound means by “Make It New.” However, to create something fresh and unique, we need to look back into the past in order to know what rules and conventions to smash. Pound, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden along with many others are the pioneers of the Modernist era, innovating free verse, intellectual statements, and universal human significance. In this…

casually used by them, but they have been handed down over centuries, burnished by use, and remade according to pattern. The wisdom first quoted in the poem as derived from Ezra Pound is repeated in the poem twice again, once in his own words, as if the speaker could not relish it enough. What was taught to him by Pound, by Lu Ji, and by Chen, he seizes to teach to Kai, in this providential moment. He is a disciple of archaic wisdom, a practitioner of it, and a teacher in his own right, using…

years 1916 until 1922, Eliot wrote a myriad of essays and reviews to “The Dial”, “Athenaeum”, “The Egoist”, and “The Times Literary Supplement”, among other journals (Ackroyd 703). Eliot showed his poems to Conrad Aiken, who passed them along to Ezra Pound who then forwarded it to the editor of “Poetry” magazine Harriet Monroe. By June 1915, “Prufrock” was published in “Poetry” (Bloom 2). In July, Eliot’s “Preludes” and “Rhapsody on a Windy Night” also appeared in the magazine “Blast” (2-3).…

Kim Yong-Hwa’s 2006 movie, 200 Pound Beauty, follows an overweight and “ugly” ghost singer who lends her vocal talent by lip syncing for an attractive and famous pop star. The ghost singer goes as far as a failed suicide and finds plastic surgery the only remedy to her as-dramatized unfortunate life. While the overarching theme of the movie is to promote inner beauty, the viewer is influenced by the romanticized and oversimplified view of cosmetic surgery. In fact, Korea is the number one…

cities and the people, the changing political and economic climate, and any advancements that may have taken place because of the war. This movement brought along poets such as Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams. Out of the modernist movement came the imagist movement which was helmed by Ezra Pound. The imagist movement was created to directly describe the image the poem was portraying as clear and concise as possible without adding major symbolism throughout the piece…