Ezra Pound Poems

In ‘A Pact’ Pound speaks on themes of legacy, writing, and change. Pound explores the hatred he’s always felt for

‘Canto I’ is the first piece of Pound’s The Cantos. He started this enormous undertaking when he was thirty years

Reminiscent of other poems such as ‘In a Station of the Metro,’ ‘L’Art’ is a memorable short poem that expresses

‘Portrait d’une Femme,’ or ‘Portrait of a Woman,’  is a poem about poetry. In it, Pound takes on one of

In ‘Salutation’ Pound addresses themes of happiness/unhappiness, wealth/poverty, and the purpose of life. Through the ten lines of this short

In ‘The Encounter’ Pound taps into themes of modernism, relationships, and perceptions. The poem is short, reminiscent of works like

‘The Lake Isle’ is a two stanza poem that speaks on the same themes as ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’

‘The Return’ by Ezra Pound is a twenty-nine line, five stanza poem constructed from short lines of varying lengths. The

‘The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter’ is a loose translation of another poem by the Chinese poet Li Bai. It was

Pound’s ‘The Sea of Glass’ is an image-rich poem that depicts lovers meeting amid rainbows in the sea. 

‘The Seafarer’ is an Old English poem found in the tenth-century Exeter Book, one of only four surviving manuscripts of

‘The Tree’ is short, only twelve lines long, but within these brief lines, Ezra Pound is able to use allusion