What adjectives does Pound use to describe infants of the very poor?

Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor. They shall inherit the earth.”

What is the central image of the poem Sea Rose?

In “Sea Rose,” H.D. rejects the traditional image of the rose as a symbol of feminine beauty and love, and instead provides an image of a flawed and stunted rose enveloped in the sea. This reversal of expected images also suggests why H.D. is regarded as important in any discussion of modern feminist poetry.

What 2 things does Pound compare in this poem?

What 2 thing does Pound compare in “In a Station of the Metro”? People’s faces and petals on a wet branch to each other (saying that petals stand out on tree branch just like faces in the metro stand out to him).

What two things does Pound compare in the poem in a station of the Metro?

The fact that these words (“crowd” and “bough”) almost rhyme reflects the overall contrast between the two lines they inhabit. The poem sets up a juxtaposition between two seemingly unlike things (faces in a crowd and petals on a tree branch), and simultaneously highlights those images’ similarities and differences.

How does Ezra Pound define image?

Ezra Pound made perhaps the most widely used definition of image in the 20th century: “An ‘Image’ is that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.” (Pound 143) In Pound’s definition, the image is not just a stand in for something else; it is a putting-into-words of the emotional.

What are the 3 tenets of Imagism?

Ezra Pound, one of the founders of Imagism, said that there were three tenets, or rules, to writing Imagist poetry.

• Direct treatment of the subject.
• Use no word that does not contribute to the presentation.
• Compose in the rhythm of the musical phrase, not in the rhythm of the metronome.