Figurative Language In The River Merchant's Wife, A Letter

Ezra Pound achieves his purpose of the narrator dealing how with her innocences and loneliness through diction, syntax, tone, mood, and figurative language.
In “The river merchant 's wife; a letter” Ezra Pound 's uses his own interpretation of the original poem to determine what diction was poetic. That’s why the this poem is considered an objective correlative, meaning that Ezra pound is trying to make his pound understandable to anyone that reads it. His main objective of the poem is that he wanted to show his audience through nature and the narrator 's commentary in order to show how the main character feels. For instances, Pound uses “butterflies” to indicate a passage of time, yet Pound choose this meeting because the character looked …show more content…
With that, both the narrator and his “girlfriend” are lying to each other and ignoring each other flaws. Even though the narrator of this poem is trying to reassure himself, because he’s barging with with his “girlfriend” to let him be who he is. What makes the tone of these two poems very different is the fact that Sonnet 138 has an appeasing tone because the narrator is not sure about how to interact with the opposite sex. While “The river merchant 's wife; a letter” on the other has this sorrowful tone and the narrator is desperate for her husband to come …show more content…
As the young girl grows she reminded that her innocence was short lived. The author of this poem uses diction like “pulling flowers” , “bamboo stilts”, and “playing horse” Here, the reader can image how at the beginning of her relationship with her husband she was young and hopeful. Both her and her husband were just two kids who really didn’t know each other. As the poem as the progresses progress there’s not any rhyming at all, and some lines have more syllables than others. This contributes to the fact that this poem was written as if it was a letter, so the narrator is trying to express how she feels all at once. Through imagery the reader is also able to understand that her husband died in a whirlpool, because he went to Ku-to-yen where there were “swirling eddies”. What’s also made clear for the reader through figurative the language is what the window walk that meant to the narrator in the third stanza. A widow 's walk is a plat float form angled toward the sea, so the window could wait until her husband comes home. The narrator uses the phrase “Why should I climb the lookout?”. What’s emphasized here is that the reader can imagine how the narrator is hopeless because she knows that she’s never going to see her husband ever again. In addition to this, the narrator uses nature to emphasize her loneliness and