41 Ezra pounde In a station of the metro o This poem by Ezra Pound is perhaps the most famous of the imagist poems Pound used it as an example of what he meant by imagism in his introduction to the first collection of his friends' poems It is a description of people in the Paris subway on a rainy, dark night 2021/2/21
2021/2/21 6 4. 1 Ezra Pound: “In a Station of the Metro”: ⚫ This poem by Ezra Pound is perhaps the most famous of the imagist poems. Pound used it as an example of what he meant by imagism in his introduction to the first collection of his friends’ poems. It is a description of people in the Paris subway on a rainy, dark night
4.2 Robert Frost(1874-1963) Member of a New England family, Frost was born in San Francisco and taken at the age of ten to the New England farm country with which his poetry is identified A short period at Harvard was followed by further work making shoes, editing a country newspaper, teaching school, and finally farming This background of craftsmanship and husbandry had its effect upon his poetry in more than the choice of subjects for he demanded that his verse be as simple and honest as an axe or hoe After a long period of farming, he moved to England (1912-1915), where he published his first book of poems A Boy's n∥(1913) 2021/2/21 7
2021/2/21 7 4.2 Robert Frost ( 1874—1963) ⚫ Member of a New England family, Frost was born in San Francisco and taken at the age of ten to the New England farm country with which his poetry is identified. ⚫ A short period at Harvard was followed by further work, making shoes, editing a country newspaper, teaching school, and finally farming. ⚫ This background of craftsmanship and husbandry had its effect upon his poetry in more than the choice of subjects, for he demanded that his verse be as simple and honest as an axe or hoe. ⚫ After a long period of farming, he moved to England (1912—1915), where he published his first book of poems, A Boy’s Will (1913)