The Moderns: Poetry

Ezra Pound (1885-1972)

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How might this content appear on the EOCT? Consider the following questions:

James is writing a research paper on Ezra Pound’s role as an Imagist poet. What resource would BEST help him in the first stage of the research process?

a. An online article about Ezra Pound’s controversial actionsb. A collection of poems by Ezra Poundc. An online encyclopedia describing Imagism and relevant authorsd. A newspaper article about Ezra Pound

What words from Pound’s poem “In a Station at the Metro” create a CONTRAST?

e. “these faces” and “crowd”f. “apparition” and “wet, black”g. “crowd” and “bough”h. “petals” and “black bough”

William Carlos Williams http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_wBTLFJxes

“The Red Wheelbarrow”http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqIl3oX_44s

“This is Just to Say”http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcTfsG-k_58

T.S. Eliot

“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

--T.S. Eliot

“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpRSmMnx1MU

---Animated (Eliot reading) http://

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLNsPhKlucY

---A. Hopkins