Imagist Poetry, Pound and Williams

Finish and hand in Robert Frost packet from yesterday.

Read Modern poetry intro in textbook (645-647).

Ezra Pound, "The River-Merchant's Wife: a Letter" and "The Garden" (650-2) 

• How is the third stanza of "The River-Merchant's Wife" the turning point in the poem? What does the wife mean in line 14?
• What hurts the young wife in line 25, and why? In the same line, why does she say, after only five months, that she grows "older"?
• In "The Garden" line 10, what does the speaker imagine the woman wants? What is she afraid of?
• "The Garden" is a poem about two individuals, the woman and the speaker, but it is also about something broader. What is Pound's larger subject?

William Carlos Williams, "The Red Wheelbarrow", "The Great Figure", and "This Is Just to Say" (667-9)

• In "The Red Wheelbarrow," Williams focuses on an ordinary workday object. Are the subjects of "The Great Figure" and "This Is Just to Say" equally ordinary? Explain.

Creative response:

Write a brief imagist poem describing an object from your everyday life. Connect it to an emotional response through your descriptions and word choices. (at least 10 lines; give it a title)