Pound+and+H.D.

Ezra Pound was a deep influential writer and mentor for the poets of his time. He left for London because he felt that American poetry and society in general was Pound had two philosophies when it came to writing poetry. He believed in making a totally new poetry and also having a backward view of poetry.

In Pound's "In a Station of the Metro", one needs to understand the context of the poem. Pound claims that this poem was initially very long compared to the two lines that were eventually published. It is worth reading the poem again: "The apparition of these faces in the crowd; / Petals on a wet, black bough" (lines 1-2). The reader can see that there is a distinctive rhythm to the poem, and one can feel the beets, especially in the last line. One can argue that Pound was deeply thinking of some emotional complex with the overwhelming images of the crowd. Perhaps he was thinking of the world and the beauty of its diversity. However, there seems to be a difference between the first and second lines with positive and negative imagery. Perhaps the second line symbolizes the urbanization of this location and what humans have done.

=**H.D.**=

H.D. was very misunderstood during her time and critics did not take her work seriously. Like Pound, she attempted to look backwards at the past. She attempted to create her own mythology, thus references to Greek mythology throughout her poems.

In her poem, "Oread", there is a great deal of imagery. Images such as "Whirl up, sea" (line 1) and "cover us with your pools of fir" (6) really strike the reader with a powerful force that is nature. H.D.'s style of writing poetry by alluding to Greek mythology is very evident here. The individual reader may take the poem to have different meanings. By displaying the forest with such a force, the speaker may be giving power back to nature itself. Reading the poem metaphorically, one can argue that H.D. is calling for a great movement of poetry and a change.