Reading:
Read in this order
Ezra Pound (795-7), "A Retrospect," 799 & "In a Station of the Metro," 809-11
Amy Lowell (724-6), "Venus Transiens," 727
William Carlos Williams (786-8), "The Red Wheelbarrow," 793 & "This is Just to Say," 793-4
H. D. (818-19), "Leda," 821 & "Helen," 822
Marianne Moore (822-4), "Poetry," 824-5 & "The Paper Nautilus," 825-6
Working Draft of Paper 1 x 2 Copies
Study Questions:
1. How does Ezra Pound's "A Retrospect" describe his own work? That of Lowell? That of Williams? That of H. D.? That of Marianne Moore? (To keep this to a paragraph, begin by stating what the Imagists held to be true, and then spend two sentences per poet: one that quotes a line or lines from their work and another that explains how it is connected to Imagist ideals.)
2. View the Auguste and Louis Lumière's "L'Arrivée d'un Train à la Ciotat" below. What similarities between this early film experiment and the work of two of our poets?
