In juxtaposing the two images, Pound uses the poetic device of parataxis. That is, he places two phrases next to each other without using a conjunction—or, for that matter, any other words. Pound does not say the faces are like petals, nor even that they are petals. Indeed, he says nothing to guide the reader between these two ideas. Rather, he presents as clearly as possible two things to see and leaves readers to draw their own conclusions from there.The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.
'"we travelled throughout the winter, oftenmeniscus is when liquid rises just above the rim of a container, "rim" being another Prynne word oddly
just found this from a book called "internal resistance: the poetry of edward dorn". can't be a coincidence?
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