"The Garden"- by Ezra Pound
Harriet Brooke.
ANALYSIS- LITERARY DEVICES
ANALYSIS- FORM / STRUCTURE
- number 6 in literature may represent evil of mans weakness (bible)
- Human weakness is thereby emphasized via the weakness of expecting conformation
ANALYSIS- POETIC DEVICES
ANALYSIS- LITERARY DEVICES
ANALYSIS- FORM / STRUCTURE
Anemia = numbness of feeling and emotion usually introduced by a traumatic event in an individual’s life
= Introduces readers to a disorderly environment
- EPIGRAPH:
- Poem opens with an epigraph = a quote from another writer providing insight into the poem (often lends itself to overarching themes or ideas within the poem)
- Albert Samain’s collection. Taken specifically from “AuJardin de l’infante”, in which women are stripped of their identity, as a nostalgia for imperial glory arises.
- unorthodox structure
- £3.00 to name when writing in an unexpected form = Pound not popular or well known.
- “The Garden” = no rhyming scheme at all, alongside his unique use of an epigraph - not common in Victorian poetry.
- Statement of rebellion against accepted alignment- last 2 lines of each stanza, is not aligned, and furthermore filled with classicism and context
- Gives information about women via colloquial and concise language.
- SIMILE:
- Automatically compares woman to a luxurious material
- Value of this luxurious fabric is revoked via diction, as the word “ skein” is used to describe the section of silk
- Skein = an offset of cloth that is often discarded
- Used to place an emphasis upon the differentiation between class
- “ In her is the end of breeding.” = woman portrayed as useless, and can no longer conceive. Is therefore infertile
ANALYSIS- POETIC DEVICES
READINGS
- Representing the internal death associated with wealth and the prosperity or life span left within the unkillable infants of the lower class.
- FORESHADOWS infants of lower class to “inherit the earth”
- Mathew 5:5, “the meek shall inherit the Earth, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peach”
AUTHORIAL CONTEXT
OVERARCHING THEME
= Class or Marxist reading formed with close regards to the discrepancy in wealth and social stance between the wealthy and poor.
= Stereotypical role of women as constructed by societal expectations, paying close attention to implications of wealth and beauty.
Both the dominant and alternative readings are reinforced via..........
The overarching theme of shallowness of the upper class, due to a standardized appearance.
Furthermore, Pound uses beauty to demonstrate the gap between class, and consequential societal expectations.
- Ezra Weston Loomis Pound, (1885-1972) has been described by numerous poets and authors as one of the most influential modernistic figures of all time.
- T. S. Elliot- “more responsible for the twentieth- century revolution in poetry than any other individual”
- Developed “imagism” and furthermore influenced a number of modernist writers after hiM, such as TS Elliot and Ernest Hemingway
- Published in 1917, on the prelude or lead up to WW1.
- Poetic trends during this era consisted of strict rules regarding rhyme and structure
EZRA WESTON LOOMIS POUND ( 1885- 1972)