LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MODERN POETRY AND POETICS
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It seeks to diminish the distance between society and nature.
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It seeks to amplify the distance between society and nature.
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It plays with the relationship between the social, natural, and supernatural worlds.
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It evokes the beauty of a pastoral scene.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Read in a different way, the use of “apparition” suggests something deeply spiritual and moving about this crowd. The speaker is having a sort of vision or spiritual experience while looking out on all these people who pass before the speaker’s field of view for just a moment.
Detailed explanation-2: -’Petals on a wet, black bough’ is the phrase which vividly shows the elegance of life and meanwhile show the impermanence of human life. Petals are found in nature in various vibrant colors which represents different human faces and the petals that lie in the wet, black bough symbolizes the transitory ness of life.
Detailed explanation-3: -The poem is Pound’s written equivalent for the moment of revelation and intense emotion he felt at the Paris Metro’s Concorde station. The poem is essentially a set of images that have unexpected likeness and convey the rare emotion that Pound was experiencing at that time.
Detailed explanation-4: -Pound was influenced here by the Japanese haiku form, which utilises images from nature to connect the momentary with the timeless, the miniature with the transcendent. The idea of people’s faces being like ‘petals’ suggests their fragility and the brevity of life.