Readings from Norton Anthology: Review the Timeline (686-687) Poetry of Amy Lowell (Introduction-Picture of reading attached below), “The Captured Goddess”- Link: https://poets.org/poem/captured-goddess “Madonna of the Evening Flowers” Link: https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/madonna-of-the-evening-flowers & “September, 1918” Link: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42990/september-1918
& Ezra Pound (Introduction- Picture of reading attached below) , “A Pact,”- Link: https://poets.org/poem/pact-1 “In the Station of the Metro,”- Link: https://poets.org/poem/station-metro & “The River Merchant’s Wife” – Link: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47692/the-river-merchants-wife-a-letter-56d22853677f9 ); “Modernist Manifestos” (Picture attached for reading); & from A Retrospect- Link: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/69409/a-retrospect-and-a-few-donts
Read the preface to Some Imagist Poets by Amy Lowell.
**Link- https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/69404/preface-to-some-imagist-poets
Then respond***
Amy Lowell & Ezra Pound had very different ideas of what constituted an Imagist poetry, each expressed in the sources we have in front of us–essays from each writer & examples of their poetry. Using these texts, write one or two paragraphs that compare Pound’s & Lowell’s poetry. What do they have in common? What do you see that’s different? How might their differing opinions on/philosophies of poetry account for these differences?
*** Your answer should be formatted as one or two correctly punctuated & grammatically accurate paragraphs; you should have a quotation from at least two of the sources as evidence & an explanation of that quote as it relates to your answer. You do not need to complete a works cited, but do name the texts you are quoting & use in-text citations. Remember that quoting poetry requires a / to indicate line breaks,
An example: Emily Dickinson’s poem “202” is tongue-in-cheek, a single quatrain that takes on the idea of faith versus science directly: “But Microscopes are prudent / In an Emergency!” (87).
