Ezra Pound: Found Poem

Ezra Pound was an American Modernist (He was also instrumental in developing the Imagist movement.) poet who lived from October 1882 to November 1972. He spent much of his time in England penning many classical poems including In a Station at the Metro, along with many many Cantos.
While he did do many longer pieces, he was best known for his spare and very specific poems, using concrete details and very few adjectives. An example of this, of course, is Metro which, in it's first draft was thirty lines long. The final draft is the famous two line poem, which uses very strong and specific details to show what Pound saw when he was exiting a train. He is one of my favorite poems, and also one of the coolest looking.
What follow is a tribute to Pound. Instead of using my words, I chose to use words from Pound's own work and turn them into a poem. It is from an article by Ezra Pound wrote on the use of imagery in poems. It's a fun and visual way to present what he was trying to teach in his essay

from an article by Ezra Pound on the use of imagery.

Enjoy!

(To learn more about found poems, click here.)

EZRA POUND

"Go in fear

of abstractions. Do not retell

in mediocre verse

what has already been done

in good prose. Don’t think any intelligent

person

is going to be deceived when you try

to shirk

all the difficulties of the unspeakably difficult

art

of good prose

by chopping

your

composition

into

line lengths."

From “A Few Don’t’s"

View the original here (includes additional information, including links to Mr Pound's books)