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As cool as the pale wet leaves of lily-of-the-valley She lay beside me in the dawn.
Alba
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this is a poem that can tell so body how the emotion felt
This poem is very beautiful and represents a persons happiness to see their love beside them in the morning...
Compare with "The Garret." I bet he wrote this one later. Both great poems, similar idea; this one pared down even further.
Alba is a true representation of imagism .
it deals with objects as imagism is the poetry of objects .It also reflects Pound's influence by the images of nature , namely the Japanese hyko .by the lily , cool , Pound means that nature becomes cool in emotions as the life in the metropolis .
Alba
As cool as the pale wet leaves
of lily-of-the-valley
She lay beside me in the dawn.
The poem is a male suppressing a women "pale leaves" and conquerer.
Alba is the Duke of, title of Fernando Alvarez de Toledo. 1508--82, Spanish general and statesman who suppressed the Protestant revolt in the Netherlands (1567--72) and conquered Portugal (1580)
Easy to understand and has simplisity. Awesome poem on lady by Ezra Pound. superb he is.