Question

1) WILLIE 3. Pick out three examples of interrogation (rhetorical questions) from the poem. (a) Explain in your own words the point that each one makes Interrogation Explanation (2) (3)
POEM : LIfe

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Answer 1

Explanation:

This study examines three very short poems from three distinct moments in recent literary

history in order to determine the limits of the poetic virtue of concision and to consider the social

and aesthetic issues raised by extreme textual reduction. Attending to the production, circulation,

and afterlives of Ezra Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro” (1913), Gwendolyn Brooks’s “We

Real Cool” (1959), and Aram Saroyan’s “lighght” (1966), I argue that such texts necessarily, and

yet paradoxically, join simplicity and ease to difficulty and effort. Those tense combinations, in

turn, make these poems ideal sites for examining how brevity functions as a shared resource

through which writers define and redefine what constitutes poetic labor and thus negotiate their

individual relationships to the poetic tradition. In tracing those negotiations, Three Very Short

Poems: The Verbal Economics of Twentieth-Century American Poetry participates in the

ongoing reassessment of the relationship between literary modernism and mass culture by