Green arsenic smeared on an egg-white cloth,
Crushed strawberries! Come, let us feast our eyes.

Analysis, meaning and summary of Ezra Pound's poem L’Art

5 Comments

  1. Sheryl Skoglund says:

    “Green arsenic smeared on an egg-white cloth,
    Crushed strawberries! Come, let us feast our eyes”.
    I think of how the green earth is poisoned on what was white purity is now blood. We can only feast our eyes on what we could eat.

  2. brydan says:

    He is making a comparison between colors, like the green to arsenic, and red to strawberries. it connects things you can touch or relate to, to the poetry, and then states “let our eyes feast,” sortof like, let us enjoy this piece of art and dwell in its conception

  3. jimbean says:

    i struggle to see how this guy was one of the great influencers in poetry

  4. Graeme says:

    kinda wierd, sounds like someone painted, then threw strawberries, then got a toddeler to walk on it.

  5. Danielle says:

    funny

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