LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MODERN POETRY AND POETICS
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These lines set an impersonal tone which dominates the entire poem.
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These lines establish a rhythmical pattern, which is followed strictly throughout the poem.
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These lines are the only impersonal lines in the poem, the rest of which is primarily focused on the complexity of human emotions.
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These lines establish a personal tone, focusing on a lyrical perspective similar to late-Victorian era poetry.
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Detailed explanation-1: -But Pound’s title for his epic, The Cantos, also suggests the medieval Italian poet Dante as a model: his Divine Comedy, comprising numerous ‘cantos’, is about the poet’s journey into hell, thence to purgatory before arriving in heaven.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ezra Pound’s colossal work of modernist poetry, The Cantos, runs to nearly 800 pages and took him over half his life to write – and even then, he never finished it. Pound himself said that the structure of The Cantos could be analysed as follows: ‘Live man goes down into world of dead.
Detailed explanation-3: -Ezra Pound wrote primarily in the Imagist style, a method of poetry that stressed sparseness, precision, and clarity, as opposed to the flowery intricacy of the Romantic movement occurring at the same time. Pound contributed greatly to the modern aesthetic through the Imagist movement.