American Poetry

Summary of imagism and vorticism
A retrospect
This Ezra Pound’s essay can be considered as a guide for new poets. The author expounds a list of advices based on the main principles of poetry. Suchas the title says, this essay is a general vision of poetry, a return to the basis of poetry. Pound purposes a new method to write poetry, a new way to express their feelings revising the previousideas that rule poetry until now. Because of that Pound purposes a method based on the particular characteristics of poetry, a method that it isn’t influenced by other ways of arts.
Pound establishespoints of departure as a guide for the new writers. Throughout the essay, the author analyses the principles features that a poem must have, such as those related to rhythm and rhyme, the author showhow to get rhythm in a poem and he compare it with music to see the differences. And also, he deals with the topics that a poem and an essay may develop, and he established a contrast between a writerand a painter. He advises not to use excessive symbols, because as he said the better symbol is the nature itself.
Pound explains the principle characteristics of this new literary movement, Imagisme,and he compares it with other literary movement and he establishes differences, such as the economy of words, use basic words; using the nature as a symbol of itself without any other ornaments.Pound also emphasizes the importance of rhythm in a poem, this must be fluent to show emotions itself.

This essay is a perfect guide to write poetry in a very good way. The aim purpose of this essayis to make known the basis to write poetry.


How to read
Ezra Pound shows the situation of literary instruction, because poetry hadn’t an own method, and he explains just like any other disciplineLiterature in general and poetry in particular need their own method of study.
This method must correspond to own characteristics of poetry, what important is the poem itself not life’s poet....