Poem Assignment

A Girl

                                                                                                                -Ezra Pound


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.

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.

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Ezra Weston Loomis Pound is an American poet who set standards for early modernist poems in the early 20th century. He pioneered imagism; he used vivid and tight language to describe an unadorned image of things he saw.
As Pound tried to convey a vivid and lucid picture through his poem, his works include many musical and verbal qualities both in the verses of his poem and in the mood. The rhythmicity is the very reason why I like Pound's poem and the poet himself.
Among all his poems, "A Girl" has special meaning for me in that this poem was the first encounter with Pound. The thrill I felt when I read through the poem, especially the line "And all this is folly to the world", I would not forget throughout my life.
The image I included is the first scenery I thought of after reading this poem.

                               

                               Painting by e.e. cummings | Mt. Chocorua, Oil on canvas, ca. 1938