Ezra Pound

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Ezra Pound

• Leader of the Imagist Movement

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Bio.

• Expatriate
• Self-exiled critic of American life
• During WWII lived in Italy and supported
  Mussolinis policies was very anti-Semitic
• Taken prisoner by Americans and charged with
  treason
• Found mentally incompetent and sent to a hospital
  for the criminally insane
• After 12 years exiled to Italy where he later
  died.

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Imagism

• Make it new
• Similar to Haiku

• Concentrates on direct presentation of images, or
  word pictures using exact words
• Freezes a single moment in time captures the
  emotion of that moment
• Use language of everyday speech
• Gives no explanation

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• The apparition of the faces in the crowd
• Petals on a wet, black bough.