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Poetry/Flash handout 1
The English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1821 said that “poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world”
Ezra Pound “In a Station of the Metro”
The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.
William Carlos Williams The Red Wheelbarrow
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
Marianne Moore said, poems are “imaginary gardens with real toads in them”.
William Wordsworth: “The spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity.”
“Among twenty snowy mountains
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the blackbird.” Yosa Buson (18th century Japanese). Translated.
“Fallen petals of red plum—
They seem to be burning
On the clods of horse shit.” Buson
Stabbed to death!
Was my dream true? The marks of a flea. Takarai Kikayu, 17th century