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Paraphrase of Ezra Pound's "Portrait d'une Femme."
Title: Paraphrase of Ezra Pound's "Portrait d'une Femme."
Category: Literature
Details: Words: 446 | Pages: 1.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Paraphrase of Ezra Pound's "Portrait d'une Femme."
Portrait d'une Femme by Ezra Pound is a blank verse. I believe that it is a poem that illustrates the emptiness and drabness of the life of a cultured woman that seems to be surrounded by all beautiful objects. In the first couple of lines, he states: "Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea, / London has swept about you this score years / And bright ships left you this or that in fee." He is …showed first 75 words of 446 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 446 total…has beauty. Her beauty is within, and no one is able to see it.
"No! there is nothing! In the whole and all / Nothing that's quite your own / Yet this is you." He finally came to realize that as much as you want her to truly be a goddess and be radiant with virtue, she is only a woman lacking identity and fulfillment. It appears that her environment structures her.
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