Ezra Pound's "A Virginal"

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This paper examines Ezra Pound's poem, "A Virginal." The paper shows how Pound's poem captures the conflicting emotions of love in sonnet form. The paper also shows how Pound utilizes imagery, metaphor and symbolism in order to allow us to see the inner conflict that love creates when we desire it and yet yearn for it to remain innocent.

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"Ezra Pound is an eclectic poet that enjoys wordplay and the imagination. "A Virginal" illustrates the poet's unique style of employing imagery, metaphor, and symbolism in an eclectic form. Pound explores the notion of love before it moves from the perfect world into the imperfect world. He grasps the emotions associated with pure love of another world and love as it exists in this world, which is not perfect and sometimes troublesome. Love has seasons like spring and winter and while pure, innocent love is beautiful, it cannot stay that way if it is to be acted upon and carried to the next level. It cannot help but make us cry when it moves from the perfect, unreal world to the imperfect, real world."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Pound, Ezra. "A Virginal." Poem Hunter Online. Site Accessed April 17, 2008. < http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-virginal/>

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