Monday, February 9, 2015

The thing that I found the most interesting about these poems is that while they are all abstract the parts of the poems that are abstract are very different. Ezra Pound's poems are fairly short, with simple language. His abstractions are in his use of nature. They focus on the look and sounds of what is happening, but the reader still can't really figure out what is going on. Mina Loy on the other hand uses unfamiliar words to create an abstract feeling. The also refers often to people, but rarely uses names, instead she uses titles such as "the doctor",  and "the daughter". T. S. Elliot's poem gives the reader the abstract feeling through perspective. The reader is seemingly inside the mind of the speaker, which is very jumbled and upset about troubles with women.
         I also find it interesting that these confusing and often complex poems were written when the visual art art of the time was getting simpler- from complex landscapes to cubism. Its almost as if the complex written word and the simple visual art were balancing each other out so that the world didn't become overly complex.

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