Medusa BY louise bogan
MOVEMENT DESCRIPTIONThe English novelist Virginia Woolf declared that human nature underwent a fundamental change on or about December 1910. On or about 1910, just as the automobile and airplane were beginning to accelerate the pace of human life, and Einstein's ideas were transforming our awareness of the universe, there was an explosion of innovation and creative energy that shook every field of artistic endeavor. Ezra Pound, the most aggressively modern of these poets, made "Make it new!" his battle cry. In London Pound encountered and encouraged his fellow expatriate T. S. Eliot, who wrote what is arguably the most famous poem of the twentieth century using revolutionary techniques of composition, such as the collage. Both poets turned to untraditional sources for inspiration, in their extreme concision and precise visualization, most purely embodied his famous doctrine of imagism.
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POEM ANALYSISIn the poem Louise was talking about how was a person’s reaction when they saw Medusa for the first time. Bogan states, “When the bare eyes were before me, And the hissing hair, Held up at a window, seen through a door. The stiff bald eyes, the serpents on the forehead, Formed in the air.” The sight of Medusa from the description given sounds like it was a terrifying moment when you encounter her for the very first time.
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LITERARY DEVICESThe literary device used in “Medusa” by Louise Bogan is Imagery. Imagery is used when Louise stated, “Hissing hair,” in my head an image of a person’s hair hissing and thought it was weird. Also imagery was used when she stated, “The stiff bald eyes, the serpents on the forehead” you can just imagine the serpents on the women’s head.
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