Poem Analysis
Poem: A girl
Poet: Ezra Pound
In the poem " A girl" the poet Ezra Pound expresses his perspective on imagination to a child.He states"The tree has entered my hands/ The sap has ascended my arms/ the tree has grown in my breast/ Downward/ The branches grow out of me like arms." From this quote one can imagine the poet imagining that he is a tree. His body is the tree and his arms are the branches."Tree you are/ Moss you are/ You are violets with wind above them/ A child-so high- you are/ And all this is folly to the world" In this quote one can also infer that the poet is talking to the little girl. In which he tells her that she can become her imagination. This is when she imagines herself as a tree. Then he goes on to say you are the tree, the moss, and the violets reassuring her imagination in more detail. In a way he sends the girl a message by implying that she should never lose her imagination even when she grows up and goes out in the world.
Literary Devices
In the poem " a girl" there are many literary devices such as a simile. An example of a simile is "The branches grow out of me like arms". This is a simile because it is drawing parallels or comparing two unrelated objects by using "like" or "as" which are the branches and his arms.