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Ezra Pound, “In a Station of the Metro”

Pound’s famous—and famously compressed—poem is a landmark work of the short-lived Imagism movement. A comparison with the minimalist stanzas in Stevens’s poem reveals a significant link between the two works.

William Carlos Williams, “This Is Just to Say”

Although Williams wrote “This Is Just to Say” long after Imagism’s heyday, it nicely reflects the aesthetic philosophy of that movement. In this regard, it makes for a useful comparison with the poetics on display in Stevens’s poem, which also reflects some of the key principles of Imagism.

Mary Oliver, “Wild Geese”

Unlike Oliver’s “Wild Geese,” “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” shouldn’t be classified as a nature poem. However, both poems develop profound insights from their attention to the natural world, and in particular to avian citizens of that world.

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