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    A Study Guide for Ezra Pound's "The River Merchant's Wife"
    A Study Guide for Ezra Pound's "The River Merchant's Wife"
    A Study Guide for Ezra Pound's "The River Merchant's Wife"
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    A Study Guide for Ezra Pound's "The River Merchant's Wife"

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    A Study Guide for Ezra Pound's "The River Merchant's Wife," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateAug 19, 2016
    ISBN9781535839303
    A Study Guide for Ezra Pound's "The River Merchant's Wife"

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      A Study Guide for Ezra Pound's "The River Merchant's Wife" - Gale

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      The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter

      Ezra Pound

      1915

      Introduction

      The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter was published in 1915 in Ezra Pound’s third collection of poetry, Cathay: Translations, which contains versions of Chinese poems composed from the sixteen notebooks of Ernest Fenollosa, a scholar of Chinese literature. Pound called the poems in English which resulted from the Fenollosa manuscripts translations, but as such they are held in contempt by most scholars of Chinese language and literature. However, they have been acclaimed as poetry for their clarity and elegance. They are variously referred to as translations, interpretations, paraphrases, and adaptations.

      Pound’s study of the Fenollosa manuscripts led to his preoccupation with the Chinese ideogram (a written symbol for an idea or object) as a medium for poetry. In fact, he realized that Chinese poets had long been aware of the image as the fundamental principle for poetic composition that he himself was beginning to formulate. Pound further maintained that the poetic image did not lose anything in translation between languages nor was it bound by time, but effectively communicated through time and across cultures, accruing meaning in the process. The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter, for example, communicates with depth and poignance the human experience of sorrow at separation, the human experience of

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