Ezra Pound's Developing Ideas
Often called "the poet's poet," because of his profound influence on 20th century writing in English, American poet and critic, Pound, believed that poetry was the highest of the arts. You never would have believed that a writer and optimist such as Ezra Pound would have been born in Hailey, Idaho in 1885. From the sound of his work you'd thing he was definitely one of those European Imagist. In 1908, after teaching college for two years, Pound traveled abroad to Spain, Italy, and London. He followed the teachings of Ernest Fenellosa and became very intrigued by Japanese and Chinese poetry. The literary figure who has had the most substantial impact on modern thought is without a doubt Ezra Loomis Pound. In The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry (1988), he is described in the following manner:
"The most extraordinary career in modern poetry has unchallengingly been that of Ezra Pound. It was he more than anyone who made poets write modern verse, editors publish it, and readers read it" (374)
One poem that stood out for me was Pound's work "A Virginal." Composed in 1912, this is a great example of Pound's skillful and early developing sonnets. It is very catching how Pound opens the sonnet with great emotion, "No, no speaking in pretense of a lover discarding a lady. In the concluding sestet Pound returns to the original two stressed syllable, "No, no," a dismissal of his discarded love, and the beginning of his reason for abandoning the attraction of traditional verse.
"No, no! Go from me. I have left her lately.
I will not spoil my sheath with lesser brightness,
For my surrounding air hath a new lightness;
Slight are her arms, yet they have bound me straightly
And left me cloaked as with a gauze of aether;
As with sweet leaves; as with subtle clearness.
Oh, I have picked up magic in her nearness
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...ists in effecting this change were a handful of American poets.
Ezra Pound, the most aggressively modern of these poets, made "Make it new!" his own battle cry. In London Pound encountered and encouraged his fellow friend in exile, T. S. Eliot, who wrote what is arguably the most famous poem of the twentieth century, "The Waste Land" using revolutionary techniques of composition, such as the collage. Both poets turned to untraditional sources for inspiration, Pound chose to turn to classical Chinese poetry and Eliot to the ironic poems of the 19th century French symbolist poet and then followed Pound to Europe and wrote poems which, in their extreme concision and precise visualization, most purely embodied his famous doctrine of Imagism.
Work Cited
1. http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fa/pound.ezra.scope.html
2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/index.shtml
3. http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=162
4. http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=162
Ezra, Pound. "In a Station of the Metro." The Harbrace Anthology of Poetry. Ed. Jon C.
Ogden Nash is a great American author, best known for his “pithy and funny light verse” (“Ogden Biography” 1). New York Times refers to him as America’s “best-known producer of humorous poetry” due to his buffoonery verse style. Born in the August of 1902 in Rye, New York as a child he moved often due to his father’s exporting-importing company (1). After completing high school at St. George’s School he attended Harvard University unfortunately quitting a year later. Reflecting on better times, Nash taught at his previous high school but left less than a year later, with little success in establishing another job (2) (“Ogden Nash” 1-2). Nash tried many different careers throughout the next decade finally finding success as a poetic advisor at Doubleday publishing house. Advertising gave him the opportunity to explore various styles of writing where he eventually came up with his own unique style. During this period he moved to Baltimore, the place he ultimately considered his home, married Francis Leonard and promoted from the market department to the editorial department at Doubleday (“Ogden Nash” 1-3).
Bearing this in mind, we see that he inserts those mythical figures into the political contexts. As Jean-Michel Rabaté puts it in his Language, Sexuality, and Ideology in Ezra Pound's Cantos, he “connects the world of ancient myth with the actualities of political synthesis. For Pound needs the concept of ‘gods’ and ‘myth’ precisely because he wants to avoid of the fate of Sordello; gods reconcile time and eternity’s concern” (63). Moreover, his allusions to Dante and Homer shouldn’t be overlooked in his search of order of values as Perkins states that “He was Odysseus, but he was voyaging in order to choose the purpose of his voyage. He was Dante in the dark wood and he hoped that if he went through the chaos of experience and history, he would gradually see that it had a structure” (232). In this regard, we can infer that he attempts to produce an order on the page or rather in his mind through his method of putting various people, incidents, and civilizations side by
Magistrale, Tony. "The Art of Poetry." Student Companion to Edgar Allan Poe. Westport, Conn. ;London: Greenwood, 2001. 39-41. Print.
Masson, Davis. Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English Poets. La Vergne, Tennessee: Lightning Source, Inc., 2007.
Not many people would mind having the title of a poet, except maybe one of the most influential artists of all time. (Kennedy and Gioia, 599) Bob Dylan was a remarkable protest singer and songwriter during the Vietnam Era with many well-remembered songs about war and many other significant topics concerning the era. He has influenced many modern day songwriters and many other famous bands such as the Beatles. (Marinucci, Steve)
... a quite standardized approach worldwide. Ikea makes use of big size stores with many showrooms to present their products to the customers that why IKEA stores locate in less-expensive areas. For example, in Japanese, before this IKEA introduced a mega store with 10,000 product lines supported by 2,200 car parking spaces, a child-care area and one of Tokyo’s largest restaurant and the new store attracted a lot of attention and within the first four hours 15,000 people had passed through its doors which is located in Funabashi area. Even though the store locating on the outskirt of the city but it gives actual opportunity for IKEA to build big stores and save on ground rent, thus lowering the actual costs and keeping prices low services, still left space for Ikea to educate their customers and possibly train them to assemble the furniture themselves in the future.
Being beautiful, being perfect, is what most of society cares about in this day and age. For example, people value getting rid of any to all imperfections, like having a bit of baby fat, or getting rid of scars. People are put down by the comments of strangers, and more so the comments made from people of their inner circle. People feel ugly and hate themselves for things that they have no control over. Some do radical things to get rid of these imperfections by getting surgery or taking pills. Even though not all people judge minor blemishes the view of one’s self is the most important view a person could have, and if that identity is under attack it could ruin a person 's self confidence. The story “The Birthmark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne also has aspects of self-confidence and identity that are relevant to the current times.
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awakening, but also the capacity to help others. That is really worthwhile. For me, this proves
Allen, Donald, ed. The New American Poetry 1945-1960. Berkely, CA.: U. of California P., 1999.
IKEA entrant into the Asian countries has changed strategies that were been used in other countries that made them successful. IKEA saw the need for change in strategies in these two countries in order for them to be successful. After studying the Chinese and japan market so well and they got to know what their culture and traditions were, they were able to introduce products that will suit their need and culture.it was realized that the people of china and japan lived in very small apartments with small balcony therefore there will not be space to accommodate bulk or more furniture when such furniture is
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IKEA was founded by Lngvar Kamprad in 1943 when he was 17 years old. He was selling fish, Christmas magazines, and ballpoint pens from his family farm. Then, in 1948, he added furniture to his product line, and he was using the local milk truck to deliver the products. After that the milk truck had changed its route in 1953. He bought an idle factory near to Almhult village to be the first warehouse. Kamprad’s goal is to make it possible for all people to buy their own furniture at a low price. The IKEA name comes from his initial, the first letter of the family farm and the village where he grew up in Sweden. In 1956, the designer Gillis Lundgren came up with the self-assembly concept, which means that the customers assemble their furniture at home, to reduce their products prices by reducing transportation and warehouse costs. As a result, Sweden’s competitors had fought the IKEA success, and they work hard to stop Kamprad’s activities. That led him to go outside the country to look for a manufacturer. This was the golden opportunity for him because he found one in Poland that could produce furniture 50% cheaper, and that helps to reduce the prices more. Moreover, IKEA has added some facilities such as a restaurant, child day care, and self-service to be as IKEA’s features.
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