Assessing Louis Zufosky Essays Example

Louis Zukofsy loves to send his messages in his poems through the use of sound patterns. Not unless you enjoy or understand the sound pattern in his piece of work, hardly will you get the message that he intends to convey in his piece of work. According to him, the music of poetry implies the intricate pattern of sound that pervades his work and through this he can communicate with his audience. It means that the poems are not representation of ideas, but enactments of thoughts in motion articulated in the nature of sound patterns. It is the same technique that Howard has employed (p. 246).
In one of his essays, Louise who was an objectivist in poetry differed in views with Amy Lowell an imagist’s poet. Amy Lowell’s imagism included treatment of several things directly regardless of whether they were objective or subjective. According to Amy Lowell poetry was an open window where by people one could get to understand the world through it (p. 240.) Louise in his essay called sincerity and objectification disputed this and depicts poetry in objectivists way, as in, he describes poetry as objects which are seeking for attention. This is displayed by the line breaks in poems that tend to do against normal rhythms used in speeches.
Louise and the objectivists agreed with Pounds view that poems should include historical events. This is to show that there should be more to poems that their immediate and direct perception as Amy Lowell displayed. Pound managed to include history in most of his poem without going against any objectivists rules on poetry. I agree with Louise view on poetry as more than just an open window for the world’s perception. There is more to poetry than the direct treatment of things in it.

Work Cited

Ahearn, Barry, Zukofsky's "A": An Introduction, University of California Press, 1983.
Ward, Geoff. Language Poetry and the American Avant-Garde. London: British Association for
American Studies, 1993. Print.
Works Cited
Zukofsky, Louis. ""a": Seventh Movement: "there are Different Techniques"." Poetry. 37.5 (1931): 242-246. Print.