River Merchant's Wife

Authors of the 1950’s introduced modernist movement in poetry. Influenced by imagism, a literary movement stressing clarity of expression through the use of precise visual images. Ezra pound and John Steinbeck both their writings use imagery to reinforce the themes of their poems. Ezra pound in “The River Merchants Wife” he use’s imagery to show how the wife misses her husband. John Steinbeck uses the mountains and the wired fence in the garden to symbolize the theme of confinement and limitation in “The Chrysanthemum’s”. These poets used non-traditional literature techniques with innovative work mixed styles and plot structures.

In the poem “The River- Merchant’s wife by Ezra Pound”. He uses language to create vivid and striking images. These images illustrate the theme of growing love. The wife, whose husband has been on a long journey, remembers when they played as children and how their relationships grew over time. Now she loves him and misses him so much it makes her sad to even see’s two butterflies playing together. “The paired butterflies are already yellow with August over the grass in the West garden; They hurt me.” this is where the wife is expressing that she misses her husband so much even when …show more content…
he uses realistic imaginative, distinguish by sympathetic humor and a keen social perspective. Which helps to set the mood characters, setting and theme of confinement and limitation. Such as similes and metaphor’s “The Fog “Sat like a lid on the mountains and made of the great valley a closed pot”. Elisa feel’s confident her garden and strong planting in her is daily routine that suggest limitation of she can do. “Elis. started at the sound of her husband’s voice. He had come near quietly, and he leaned over the fence that protected her flower’s from cattle and dogs and chicken. “At it again” he said: when she leaves the garden she no longer fells strong or