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Analysis, Interpretation and Summary of Ezra Pound's poem  An Immorality  " An Immorality"   Sing we for love and idleness, Naught else is worth the having.   Though I have been in many a land, There is naught else in living.   And I would rather have my sweet, Though rose-leaves die of grieving,   Than do high deeds in Hungary To pass all men's believing.   Critical Analysis: To unlock the hidden meaning of the poem we need to understand the narrative framing of this poem. It seems that there are two narrators in this poem. The first narrator is the author himself who gives the title “An Immorality” to the poem. This title further reveals that what follows after the title is considered immoral by the poet, Ezra Pound. The second narrator is the one who sings the song of “love and idleness”. He is of the opinion that there is nothing worth to live for, only “love and idleness” are worth living. The narrator claims that he has traveled around the world ...

“In a Station of the Metro" Ezra Pound, analysis and interpretation. Imagism:(1912 and 1914) Imagism was an early 20th-century movement born in England and America. It was a reaction to romantic and Victorian poetry. During modernism, the writers tried to experiment with writing so imagism was the product.  Ezra Pound was the father of the imagist movement. The aim of the imagist movement was to create concrete images with words. Ezra Pound wrote an essay about imagist poetry  Few Don'ts by an Imagiste in this essay Ezra pound defined an image “that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.” Ezra Pound was inspired by Japanese Haiku; therefore, in this essay, he said,  a poet should use fewer words and write concisely. He further said that if rhyming and meter are part of your work and they are compromising the quality of your work then you should avoid them.  The poem “In a Station of the Metro" is the best example of imagist poetry...

  The Second Coming The second coming is one of the celebrated poems of Willam Butler Yeats, written in 1919. It was written in aftermath of world war 1. The destruction and chaos of war had a profound effect on social life and literature. W.B Yeats, in this poem, talks about the downfall of human civilization. This poem has multiple interpretations, but I will try to be as accurate as possible.  Turning and turning in the widening gyre    The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere    The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst    Are full of passionate intensity. Analysis: Stanza 1: In the first line, Yeats is talking about a gyre. A gyre is a whirl or a spiral. Different scholars and theorists have different opinions about history. Yeats considered history as two interp...