ENGL 305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Free Verse, Imagism
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A pact: not a true pact. Whitman is dead: dead poet does not equate to dead poetry, whitman gets endurance out of the poem, pound get s inspiration out of the poem. Describing other poets: childish description, perhaps he pardoned . Sarcastic and egotistical: gives reasons for his rules. But his authority is completely assumed: exhausted by lazy poets. Believes poetry needs more discipline: what pound is against. Prose to poetry: what pound is for. Show don"t tell: evoke, no super uous words, compose musically. Image: leave pictures to painters, pound"s de nition. Intellectual and emotional: feelings and thoughts. Fears with the manifesto: a dogma. Exposes his anxiety over it being rules: doesn"t want people to believe this is the only way to right poems. In a station of the metro: to study this poem goes against every pound just preached.
