Literary Criticism

1. Beauty
through
time

2. In a station
of the metro
By Ezra Pound

3. EZRA WESTON LOOMIS POUND
• Born on October 30, 1885
• Died on November 1972
• American Poet and Critic
• His contribution of poetry began with
his development of IMAGISM.
• His Famous works include
• Ripostes (1912)
• Hugh Selwyn Mauberly (1920)
• Unfinished 120-section epic,
The Cantos (1917-1969)

5. In a Station of the Metro
The apparition of these faces,
Petals on a wet, black bough.

6. Three Vistas
Author – dependent
Text – Dependent
Reader’s Response Theory

7. AUTHOR-DEPENDENT FRAMEWORK
EZRA POUND
HISTO-BIO APPROACH
BEAUTIFUL FACES
INDESCRIBABLE UNFATHOMABLE

8. THE INEXPRESSIBLE BEAUTY
OF THE PEOPLE.
SUB-THEME

9. TEXT-DEPENDENT FRAMEWORK
FORMALISM
IN A STATION OF THE METRO
EXPLICATION EXEGESIS
2 LINES
14 WORDS
HOKKU/HAIKU
SYMBOLISM
IMAGERY
METHAPORS
1ST LINE
THE BEAUTIFUL FACES
OF THE PEOPLE.
2ND LINE
THE BEAUTIFUL FACES OF
THE PEOPLE WAS
COMPARED TO A PETALS
WHICH MAKES THE
FLOWER BEAUTIFUL,BUT
FADES WHEN IT FELL TO
THE BLACK BOUGH
WHICH SYMBOLIZES
TIME

10. TEXT-DEPENDENT FRAMEWORK
STRUCTURALISM
SEMIOTICS
FACES PETALS
WET BLACK BOUGH
FADE OF BEAUTY

11. SUB-THEME
BEAUTY FADES AS
TIME GOES BY.

12. READER’S RESPONSE THEORY
ARCHETYPAL
ETERNAL
EPHEMERAL
TIME
BEAUTY
CHANGE

13. SUB-THEME
TIME BRINGS FORTH
CHANGE.

14. GRAND THEME
SUB-THEME 1
THE INEXPRESSIBLE BEAUTY OF A PEOPLE.
SUB-THEME 2
BEAUTY FADES AS TIME GOES BY.
SUB-THEME 3
TIME BRINGS FORTH CHANGE.

15. GRAND THEME
BEAUTIFUL FACES
UNFATHOMABLE
INDESCRIBABLE
TIME
CHANGE
FADE OF BEAUTY

16. GRAND THEME
Inexpressible beautiful faces fades
thru time.