Like a skien of loose silk blown against a wall
She walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens,
And she is dying piece-meal
of a sort of emotional anaemia.
And round about there is a rabble
Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor.
They shall inherit the earth.
In her is the end of breeding.
Her boredom is exquisite and excessive.
She would like some one to speak to her,
And is almost afraid that I
will commit that indiscretion.
1. what simile, in the first stanza of "The Garden," describes what the woman looks like as she walks through the park?
2. how would you explain, " emotional anemia"? how might it cause a woman to die "piecemeal"?
3. what contrast to the woman is set up in stanza two?
4. "The Garden" is about two individuals, the woman and the speakers, but it is also about something broader. what is Pound;s large subject?
thanks!
She walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens,
And she is dying piece-meal
of a sort of emotional anaemia.
And round about there is a rabble
Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor.
They shall inherit the earth.
In her is the end of breeding.
Her boredom is exquisite and excessive.
She would like some one to speak to her,
And is almost afraid that I
will commit that indiscretion.
1. what simile, in the first stanza of "The Garden," describes what the woman looks like as she walks through the park?
2. how would you explain, " emotional anemia"? how might it cause a woman to die "piecemeal"?
3. what contrast to the woman is set up in stanza two?
4. "The Garden" is about two individuals, the woman and the speakers, but it is also about something broader. what is Pound;s large subject?
thanks!