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Compare And Contrast In The Station Of The Swamp And Mary Oliver

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Aileen Chavarria
English 240
March 18, 2017 Poetry Reading Response “In the Station of the Metro” is an imagist poem and it’s structured to convey a specific mental image through precise description. “Crossing the Swamp” doesn’t follow a certain scheme but instead focuses on certain phrases within the zigzag formation it’s written in. Both structures work for their individual poem because Ezra Pound uses exact description to get a subtle concept across while Mary Oliver uses descriptive language to make the swamp come alive and instill a similar state of mind that the author goes through as the poem progresses.
The diction and syntax is appropriate for both poems. The usage of “foothold, fingerhold, mindhold” suggest that crossing the

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