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Encounter. By Czeslaw Milosz. Translated by Czeslaw Milosz and Lillian Vallee. We were riding through frozen fields in a wagon at dawn. A red wing rose in the darkness.
Mar 15, 2017 · Encounter Czeslaw Milosz Translated by Czeslaw Milosz and Lillian Vallee. We were riding through frozen fields in a wagon at dawn. A red wing rose in the darkness. And suddenly a hare ran across the road. One of us pointed to it with his hand. That was long ago. Today neither of them is alive, Not the hare, nor the man who made the gesture.
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The poem brings the reader immediately into a scene in which modern life is the subjectof discussion. There is a group, talking over the changes of their modern world while a woman keeps her eyes trained on the speaker. He recalls this, and also how he left the room and felt her fingers on his skin. They were like Japanese tissue.
‘The Encounter’ by Ezra Pound is a five-line poem that is contained within a single stanza of text. The lines in this poem are short, as is the poem itself. They use between four and nine words each and aside from the first line (which is the longest), are visually similar in length.Pound did not use a rhyme scheme or metrical pattern in the piece,...
Pound makes use of several poetic techniques in ‘The Encounter’. These include but are not limited to alliteration, allusion, imagery, and enjambment. As one might imagine considering the name of Pound’s movement, “Imagism,” imagery is the most important technique at work in ‘The Encounter’. Imagery refers to the elements of a poem that engage a re...
Lines 1-2
In the first lines of ‘The Encounter,’ the speaker begins by describing the scene. He is in a room with an unknown group. He doesn’t say how many people there were but they included a woman who shows a clear interest in him. The first line references their discussion, one of “the new morality”. This is a vague phrase and without obvious contextual details, it’s possible to know for sure what Pound meant. But, it is easy to guess. Pound was at the forefront of the imagist movement. It was one...
Lines 3-5
In the last lines, it is unclear exactly what happened between the two. One interpretation might hold that Pound’s speaker left the room without the woman. He briefly felt her fingers and then they were gone. Another might suggest that she left with him and her touch was on his arm as they walked together. Either way, the image is an interesting one. It presents this woman, and perhaps all women, as fragile and delicate. She is very light, thin, and easy to tear Japanese paper. This is a love...
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Compared to Milosz's other works, this poem is more direct and less abstract. It focuses on a specific incident, conveying a sense of urgency and loss. The short, simple lines create a stark contrast to the expansive landscapes he often depicts.
An Encounter Lyrics. Once on the kind of day called “weather breeder,” When the heat slowly hazes and the sun. By its own power seems to be undone, I was half boring through, half climbing...
An Encounter. Robert Frost. 1874 –. 1963. Once on the kind of day called “weather breeder," When the heat slowly hazes and the sun. By its own power seems to be undone, I was half boring through, half climbing through. A swamp of cedar.
Mar 10, 2009 · The Encounter. March 10, 2009. by Louise Gluck. You came to the side of the bed. and sat staring at me. Then you kissed me-I felt. hot wax on my forehead. I wanted it to leave a mark: that’s how I knew I loved you. Because I wanted to be burned, stamped, to have something in the end- I drew the gown over my head;
