Rowelle Shayra J. Juarez HUMALIT N04
Masks by Ezra Pound The poet that I have chosen is Ezra Pound. He is one of the famous poets in the twentieth century. Ezra Pound or in full, Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was born on October 30, 1885 at Hailey, Idaho but grew up and studied mainly in Pennsylvania. He went to Europe to publish successful books of poetry between 1908 and 1911 he published six collections of verse that are dominantly Italian poetry. Ezra Pound promoted, advanced, and also helped to shape, the work of such widely different poets and major novelist as W. B. Yeats, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, H. D., James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, and especially T. S. Eliot. Ezra Pound advance his poetry style, and in 1912 launched the Imagist movement, advocating concreteness, economy, and free verse. (Wilmer, 1994) Hugh Witemeyer argues that the Imagist movement was the most important in 20th-century English-language poetry because it affected all the leading poets of Pound 's generation and the two generations after him. (Witemeyer, 1999) In 1917 Carl Sandburg wrote in Poetry: "All talk on modern poetry, by people who know, ends with dragging in Ezra Pound somewhere. He may be named only to be cursed as wanton and mocker, poseur, trifler and vagrant. Or he may be classed as filling a niche today like that of Keats in a preceding epoch. The point is, he will be mentioned. (Elliot, 1999) His best-known works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn