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.Imagination (not in the station): apparition, petals, boughApparition: the other world, sad about transience of lifePetals: Transmigration of life amp。長(zhǎng)干行妾發(fā)初覆額,折花門前劇。五月不可觸,猿聲天上哀。 shifting tones shows the silky shy tenderness of the young wife writing to her absent husband.The history of her feeling:Her bashfulness – a young girlHer spiritual affinity with him – during the phase of the marriageMaterial nature of her love at the time of his departureHer longing for his return when she grows oldImages: hair。s statement of the length of his absence is expressed in one line, giving it full and emphatic force. And in line 18 the effect of this long absence is brought to full prehension by the use of the natural image of the sounds of the monkeys that reflect back to her the sound of her own sorrow. The sounds that monkeys make are generally interpreted as chirping, happy sounds, but the weight of the wife39。 In these closing lines of the poem and the letter the rivermerchant39。 The second stanza places the girl and the boy, the I and the you, as a woman and man in the adult world. In ancient cultures, and in some cultures today, early marriages are customary, and it is often also the custom for the wife to refer to her husband by a respectful title. In the case of this poem the formality of the title is softened by the direct address of you added right after it. Lines 89 establish the childwife39。相迎不道遠(yuǎn),直至長(zhǎng)風(fēng)沙。常存抱柱信,豈上望夫臺(tái)。 fibre of America, is the same as his。 Form: no fixed framework, no central theme, no attention to poetic rules“In A Station of the Metro”Background:Pound was once in a Paris subway station and was struck by the sight of the faces of a few pretty women amp。 fewer, if anyone at all, have had the courage to declare that they have conquered Pound。 Confident in Pound’s belief that the artist was morally and culturally the arbiter and the “saviour” of the race, he took it upon himself to purify the arts and became the prime mover of a few experimental movements, the aim of which was to dump the old into the dustbin and bring forth something new.(2)literary careerEzra Pound was born in Hailey, Idaho, in 1885. He pleted two years of college at the University of Pennsylvania and earned a degree from Hamilton College in 1905. After teaching at Wabash College for two years, he travelled abroad to Spain, Italy and London, became interested in Japanese amp。 It is this movement that helped to open the first pages o